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# **SUCCESSION PLANNING:**

## **A Complete Guide to Success **

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Most people would change jobs several times throughout their working lives. Succession planning helps engage your employees, especially the HiPos and high-performing individuals, and dramatically decreases the turnover rate.

Too often, the term "succession planning" is used synonymously with workforce planning.

## In this whitepaper we look into:

- The differences between succession planning and workforce planning
- What are the benefits of succession planning?
- Why you have to include you middle management level?
- Choosing between internal vs. external successors
- Factors to consider before building a succession plan
- The 5-step approach to a successful succession plan
- Tips & pitfalls  to avoid
- Examining succession plans at IBM and GE

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