What is succession management?

Succession management is the process of identifying and developing employees who have the potential to fill key leadership positions within an organisation in the future.

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Succession Planning Software

Q: What is succession management software?

Succession management software is HR software designed to help an organisation plan for the transition of leadership positions. It provides tools to identify high-potential employees, create development plans for those employees, and track their progress over time. This helps organisations better prepare for leadership transitions, reduce the risk of losing key talent, and improve the impact of their leadership development programs.

Keep Your Future Leaders in Focus

Empower employees with career clarity and give your organisation the confidence to plan for what’s next. Identify critical roles, reduce flight risks and support internal mobility with ELMO Succession.

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Struggling to retain top performers?

Give employees clear pathways for growth, so they feel engaged, valued, and motivated to stay.

Lack of visibility over future leadership?

Get a workforce wide view of performance, potential and flight risk, so you’re ready when key roles open up.

No succession strategy in place?

Plan for the future with confidence. Use role criticality and readiness ratings to build robust succession plans for every key role.

Career planning stuck in a spreadsheet?

Remove admin bottlenecks with intuitive tools that simplify talent planning, career conversations and development tracking.

Cut through the noise. Easily filter employees by role criticality, readiness, performance or flight risk. Gain instant clarity on your succession landscape.

Succession plans for any role. Assign and manage potential successors and track their development to ensure business continuity.

Confidence in data. Customisable reports and 9-box grids give leaders the evidence they need to align workforce planning with business goals.

Give employees a voice. Capture employee aspirations and preferences through configurable questionnaires, so development plans are meaningful and aligned to individual goals.

Put insights into action. Visualise your bench strength, track development plans, and build talent pools that ensure business continuity and workforce agility.

Keep top talent engaged

Support career growth with visible pathways and development opportunities while reducing replacement costs and protecting IP.

Futureproof critical roles

Avoid business disruption with clear successor plans for every key position.

Enable strategic planning

Drive better business decisions with data on readiness, risk and potential.

Boost internal mobility

Unlock hidden talent, reduce time-to-fill and create growth opportunities that strengthen retention.

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People & Culture Manager, Eastland Group

Eastland Group’s story

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BridgeClimb’s story

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Succession planning software is designed to help an organisation plan to transition leadership positions. It provides tools to identify high-potential employees, create development plans for those employees, and track their progress over time.

This helps organisations better prepare for leadership transitions, reduce the risk of losing key talent, and improve the impact of their leadership development programs.

Succession management is important because it helps organisations ensure they have a pipeline of talented and qualified individuals who can step into leadership roles when needed. It’s a critical planning element for long-term success and viability and is also used for business continuity and risk management.

ELMO Succession Management is best suited for mid-sized to large businesses. It’s flexible enough to scale with your organisation as your needs evolve, making it ideal for teams looking to identify critical roles, and create and manage succession plans for any position.

HR planning focuses on identifying and addressing the overall workforce needs of an organisation, including recruitment, training, and development to meet current and future business goals.

Succession planning is a strategic process specifically aimed at identifying and developing internal employees to fill key leadership positions in the future, ensuring business continuity and leadership stability.

You can customise the succession planning process for your organisation’s specific needs. You will be able to select what information is being captured, who is involved in the review, and how these reviews are rated, as well as being able to bring in your own performance methodologies and ratings to support the process.

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