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Succession Planning Software
Keep Your Future Leaders in Focus
ELMO Succession helps you protect business continuity across every role by planning for career moves, planned transitions and unexpected departures.
Trusted by 2,000+ organisations across Australia and New Zealand
ELMO Succession Management features
Features at your fingertips
Assign and manage criticality ratings for any business-critical position
Identify positions with no ready successor
Focus succession planning where a gap could disrupt business continuity
Assign potential successors to any role
Track readiness, development plans and coverage over time
Build and manage talent pools for future roles
Use a consistent process to capture performance, potential and flight risk across the workforce
Use a heat map to highlight high-flight-risk and critical positions
Capture career aspirations and preferences through configurable questionnaires
Filter employees by role criticality, readiness, performance or flight risk
Use 9-box grids and customisable reports to compare talent insights
Give leaders a clearer evidence base for workforce planning decisions
See the business impact
Make talent decisions clearer
Protect business continuity
Build a stronger pipeline of successors for critical roles, so you can see where coverage is thin and act before a vacancy creates disruption.
Retain critical talent
Give employees more visible pathways for career growth and align development conversations with their aspirations, helping you retain capability and institutional knowledge.
Plan with confidence
Replace spreadsheet guesswork with a shared view of readiness, risk and potential, so executives, HR and managers can make more consistent workforce planning decisions.
Reduce replacement costs
Identify and support internal talent before you need to recruit externally, reducing the cost and disruption associated with replacing critical employees.
ELMO Succession benefits
Build continuity before a role becomes vacant
Most organisations only see the full impact of a succession gap when a critical person resigns. ELMO Succession helps you apply a consistent process across managers, identify the roles that matter, understand your bench strength and act before continuity is at risk.
Keep future talent in focus
See performance, potential and flight risk across the workforce. Configurable questionnaires capture career aspirations and preferences, helping you make succession decisions that support retention and internal mobility.
Turn people data into a succession plan
ELMO Succession uses the people and performance data already held across the connected ELMO platform. Filter talent by criticality, readiness, performance or flight risk, then use reports and 9-box grids to guide the next decision.
Don’t just take our word for it
What our customers are saying
“Before ELMO, we managed eight different spreadsheets just to keep our people data straight. Now it’s all in one place. It’s made our workstreams ten times faster and freed me up to focus on bigger things.”
Rachelle Andrews
Eastland Group
“When you’re looking for a paper employee record from 2007 in a manilla folder, you know you need to do something differently.”
Caterina Davis
BridgeClimb
“We really needed to streamline all of our processes and ensure that we had the right approvals and processes in place to remain compliant, whilst providing a fluid digital people experience.”
Ariauna Sanis
Petsure
Faq’s
Find the answers you’re looking for
Frequently Asked Questions about Succession Software.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
