Succession planning is a process where an organization ensures key roles are filled by developing employees. It differs from replacement in that it is a planned, flexible approach to renewing leadership over time. Succession planning is important because leadership positions become vacant due to promotions, retirements, illnesses or departures. The process involves defining goals, assessing employees, implementing development plans, and evaluating effectiveness. Benefits include developing talent, identifying skills gaps, and improving learning systems. Infosys' succession planning utilizes nine pillars including feedback, training, development assignments, and community programs to cultivate future leaders.

1. Succession Planning
Focus Infosys

2. Flow of presentation
• Succession planning
• Replacement v/s Succession Planning
• Reasons to Succession planning
• The succession planning process
• The steps to succession planning
• Benefits of Succession Planning
• Infosys Succession planning
• The Nine Pillars

3. What is succession planning?
• Succession planning is a process whereby an
organization ensures that employees are
recruited and developed to fill each key role
within the company.

4. Replacement v/s Succession Planning
• Form of Risk • Planned Future
Management Development
• Substituting • Renewing
• Narrow Approach • Organized Alignment
• Restricted • Flexible
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5. Why Succession planning?
Within any organization, people in leadership
positions eventually cease to fulfil that role. This
can occur for a variety of reasons, such as:
• Promotion within the organization
• Move to part-time arrangements
• Voluntary departure from the organization.

6. Why succession planning?(Contd.)
• Involuntary departure from the organization.
• Retirement
• Serious illness
• Death

7. The succession planning process
Succession planning requires steps to
• Obtain leadership guidance
• Collect relevant information
• Make key decisions
• Execute succession and development actions.

8. The succession planning process(Contd.)
The steps to succession planning :
• Define purpose, goals, and scope
• Assemble an oversight committee
• Set policy

9. The steps to succession planning:(Contd.)
• Define operational parameters
• Develop and conduct the assessment
• Compile and organize the data

10. The steps to succession planning:(Contd.)
• Conduct organizational reviews
• Implement development plans
• Assess process effectiveness

11. Benefits of Succession Planning
• Development
• Identify Skill Gap
• Search Internal & External Candidate Pools

12. Benefits of Succession Planning(Contd.)
• Improve Learning Management System
• Enables Manager & Employees in Succession
Planning

13. Infosys Succession planning
• The Infosys Leadership Institute at the company's Mysore campus comes
into the picture.
• The 162,000 square feet structure, built at the cost of Rs 41.1 crore
(Rs 411 million)

14. The Nine Pillars

15. The Nine Pillars (Contd.)
1. 360 degree feedback
2. Development assignments
3. Infosys Culture workshops

16. The Nine Pillars (Contd.)
4. Development relationships
5. Leadership skills training
6. Feedback intensive programmes

17. The Nine Pillars (Contd.)
7. Systemic process learning
8. Action learning
9. Community empathy

18. Thank you