Workstream Succession Planning Version 7

Flexible, Unified Talent Management Solution

Workstream Succession Planning 7.0 is a component of the unified Talent Center 7.0 offering. Customers have a single view of all their talent management information: succession plans, development plans, competency profiles, performance reviews, 360 assessments, and compensation planning - all unified in one application.

Identify Your Strongest Leaders

Identifying and retaining the strongest leaders is key to a company's success. Succession Planning 7.0 gives you a complete view of leaders across your organization. Planners see complete competency profile information, past performance and development plans, as well as key statistics such at risk factors - all in one unified solution.

Single, Global Solution

Succession Planning 7.0 is the most flexible global solution, supporting all languages. This enables managers and employees to create succession plans, evaluate successors, run analytical reports and manage all aspects of their succession planning process in their local languages. Administrators can view overall information in their local language - all in the same solution.

Knowing who the strongest leaders are is key to successful corporate succession planning. Workstream Succession Planning 7.0 lets managers see where the company has bench strength, where development is needed and enables manages to create effective succession plans. Based on our industry leading competency management solution, Workstream Succession Planning provides a complete view of the organization.

Workstream Succession Planning 7.0 provides the most complete competency-based succession planning solution on the market. Leveraging TalentCenter 7.0's single, unified user-experience and adding new cross-application reporting platform and new integrated knowledge management capabilities Succession Planning 7.0 is the next step in the evolution of succession planning solutions.

Key Product-level Capabilities

• Configurability - Succession Planning is highly configurable, offering options for every aspect of the succession planning process, including who nominates successors, self-nomination, and assessment fields to display, drop down assessment lists, competency profiles, and employee data fields.
• Designate Successors - Incumbents and other managers can designate potential successors from queries of the employee database.
• Self-Nomination - Employees can nominate themselves for positions for which they would like to be considered.
• Successor Assessment - Managers can indicate whether the incumbents are promotable or transferable, to which positions, when, and what development is needed in order to be ready.
• Analyze Successors - Successors can easily be displayed and ranked based on competency assessments, readiness, availability, or other selected fields.
• Competency Comparison - An employee's competency assessment can be mapped to a specific position to determine their qualification.
• Integration with Performance Management - View successors' past performance plans and appraisals to evaluate the relevance of their experience, key job responsibilities, job goals, and performance and competency proficiency ratings.
• Integration with Development - View successors' individual development plans (IDP) to see if their development relates and to what degree to potential future positions and create specific IDPs in preparation for those positions.
• True Competency Assessment - Enables true competency assessment at both competency and behavior levels as measurement of skills, knowledge, and competencies requires different scales. In addition, this solutions supports measurement of other employee attributes important for succession planning and/or resourcing such as certifications, education, and licenses.
• Identify Positions at Risk - Identify positions for which there are no, or very few, potential successors.