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Presented by
Fire Chief Kelvin J. Cochran
Planning Succession
• Succession Planning
• Professional Development
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• Mentoring
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Planning Succession
Succession Planning
• The continual business of
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monitoring and developing
internal talent to assure that
employees have the knowledge,
skills and abilities necessary to
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Professional Development
• Establishing core competencies
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for every rank, while
systematically providing training
and education internally and
externally to meet those
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requirements
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Mentoring
• The systematic approach to
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providing focused support and
attention, both professional and
personal guidance to
subordinates, formally woven into
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Organizational Stagnancy
– A period where activities that were
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once exciting have become
common and routine
– Lack luster and enthusiasm
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as a department.
Planning Succession
• Inability to forecast
– Members are staying longer before
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signing up
– Members are choosing to stay past
their retirement/DROP date
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In organizations where
succession planning really
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• Narcissist mentality
• Unaware of organizational vulnerability
Failure to Succession Plan
• Steady attrition of talented
members
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• Retain people with outdated skills
• Create promotion apathy
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• Create a passive-aggressive
culture
Wanted: Talented Leaders
• Disaster Management
• Budget challenges
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• Implement progressive change
• Managing community conflicts
• Labor/management challenges
In situations like these Fire Departments
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– Emergency Management
Organizations
– Private Sector Organizations
Leadership Development
Initiatives and Opportunities
• Higher Education
Blueprint for SP and PD
• Versed in all aspects of
organization
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• Accountability for chief fire officers
• Unwavering commitment to the
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system
• Share resources-the talent pool
• Job rotation strategy
• Provide opportunities and visibility
Integrated Approach
• Succession planning drives
professional development
• Succession planning starts at the top
• Train and develop potential successors
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successor.”
Benefits of Integration
• Alerts rising stars to opportunities
• Ability to assess your “bench
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strength”
• Sense of future incumbent
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leadership
• Minimal business disruption
• Increase stakeholder confidence
• Reduce cost of external
recruitment
Desired Culture
• Talent alignment and optimization -
striking the balance between the supply
of talent (rising stars) and the demand
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for talent (critical positions)
• Annual review of talent pool-group
setting
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development
• Nudge into new functional areas
• Mentor emerging leaders
• Pass on important knowledge
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– Professional development,
succession planning not linked with
mentoring
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– Miss-matched protégé-mentor
(disfunctional development)
– Performance management measures
and rewards inconsistent with
organizational values and culture
Attractiveness
decisions
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• Not a perception of favoritism
• Not padding and developing resumes
• Persons recruited, selected and
promoted are truly qualified, capable,
competent
Professional Development
Outcomes
• Actively improve employee skills
• Increase commitment to work
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The Mentor
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And
The Protégé
Mentoring
• Essential to leadership development
• Many mentors will enter and exit your life
• Mentors can make the difference between:
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– Your best friend loves you the way you are; your
mentor loves you too much to leave you the way
you are
– Your best friend ignores your weakness; your
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The Protégé
• A protégé is an enthusiastic learner
• The wisdom of the mentor is
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perpetuated through the protégé
• It is vital to recognize and honor those
connected to you for the multiplying and
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perpetuation of your success and life.
Passive Protégés
• Reach when it is convenient or
when their personal efforts do not
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produce their desired result.
• They subconsciously expect their
mentor to produce success for
them.
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Parasite Protégés
• Pursue for credibility, not correction.
• They will use the name and influence of
a mentor to manipulate others into a
relationship
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Questions???
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