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Many organizations have established replacement planning, succession planning or talent management programs to ensure leadership continuity at a time when talent shortages constrict growth or pending retirements threaten business continuity. But some organizations are missing an additional dimension—that is, technical succession planning, defined as a systematic process for transferring institutional memory and for transferring proprietary knowledge gained from the unique experiences of an organization. Technical succession planning also focuses on transferring technical knowledge—that is, unique knowledge about the organization’s technology (such as engineering wisdom). This workshop addresses this cutting-edge issue, a missing element in many organizational succession programs.

Cutting Edge Highlights:
• Define technical succession planning and distinguish it from replacement planning, management succession planning, succession management, and talent management
• Build a compelling case with organizational leaders about the need for technical succession planning
• Discuss step-by-step 12 practical approaches to transferring wisdom, institutional memory
and technical knowledge
• Compare their organizations to best practices in technical succession planning
• Discuss the importance of high professionals in technical succession planning, distinguishing them from high potentials
• Explain the role that technical/functional competencies play in technical succession planning
• Analyze best practice cases in technical succession planning and explain what is good—and what could be improved—in best practice examples