Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, How to do Succession Planning, Chapter 3, The Simple Form.

Here we go.

So Mark, today you're going to tell us how to create a dead simple succession planning

form. Yep, and you know what? I thought. dead simple succession planning for him.

Yep, and you know what?

I thought about this as I was writing the cast the other day.

It occurred to me there are people in HR that will hear this cast and not like it.

And folks, if you're in HR, we love you.

And we'll talk about why there's a dichotomy

between what you recommend and what you use

and what we recommend, because this is manager tools tools it's not organizational tools.

In our first cast in this series about succession planning geared toward the individual

manager we told you get started a simple widely spread concept that will help 90% of the managers in the world

think about succession planning is ready now and ready next and I think in that

cast we actually said you know just think about it and write down who's ready now and who's ready next on a napkin.

And this cast is about making that napkin pretty so that your boss will like it.

And you'll have a way to review your work periodically.

So we've got four points we want to make. First of all, we're

going to talk about one page. We really strongly recommend one page. Then we're

going to talk about the ready now section, where you talk about the name of the

person and their role and their strengths and their weaknesses and what they're ready for.

You can't just say they're ready. You have to describe, you have to name jobs.

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