There is overwhelming agreement among executives that succession planning is critical for business continuity. But only one-third of companies have a plan in place – and that’s for the CEO level. The numbers are worse for upper and middle management and almost non-existent for other positions. An even more compelling story is that for those companies with plans more than four in ten employees rate their companies’ talent efforts as “fair” or “poor.”

On August 9, Ira S Wolfe, president of Success Performance Solutions and author of The Perfect Labor Storm,  was the guest presenter on this ere.net webinar.  Topics included:

  1. Perfect Labor Storm: workforce trends that should be keeping executives awake at night
  2. The New “Normal”: the state of talent management 2011
  3. Emerging Best Practices: from metrics to social media