Effective Succession Planning and Talent Management processes share three goals:

• To collect and make available data about all available talent
• To engage a range of informed individuals to identify opportunities to better deploy available talent; to improve organisational performance and individual talent
• To plan for and deliver aggressive individual and team development to grow the available talent.

Paper-based processes have often failed to meet these expectations but the Succession Pulse™ web-based system offers solutions to all the classic shortfalls.

Comprehensive Functionality
Succession Pulse™ offers powerful functionality including the following:

• Extensive security, controlling what people can see, update, do, search, extract and report (Different menus can be configured for individuals, their managers, executives and HR Administrators.)
• Employee details - extensive range of single fields such as name, gender, position (To allow data exchange or sharing of demographic data with your HRIS as well as maintenance of additional data not currently held)
• Employee resume – extensive range of multiple records such as languages, work history, future roles, aspirations (Also enabling data exchange and sharing with an HRIS)
• Competency templates
  (To support Competency Assessment, Development Planning and Job Profiling)
• Intuitive data entry screens with configurable ‘Help & Information’
• Support for position control
  (e.g. ‘Position to Position’ reporting and/or ‘Person to Person’ reporting)
• Tracking Work History, Career Aspirations
• Identifying and validating Future Roles, and Development Pool or Talent Pool membership
• Tracking of Performance, Potential, Readiness and Vulnerability
• Tracking and validating multiple layers of Successor nominations
• Searching for candidates using the powerful Query Manager
• Creating ad-hoc reports easily and quickly using the Extract Manager
• Locating and comparing future job holders based on Competencies and/or demographic data
• organisation and/or successor charting
• Setting, approving and tracking individual development plans
• Producing individual and aggregate reports.