Certificate in Career Development and Succession Planning (HRT-047) Training Course

Certificate in Career Development and Succession Planning

Career development and succession planning are essential for building future leaders, retaining top talent, and ensuring business continuity. Organizations that invest in…

5 daysClassroom or online

13Upcoming dates

5Cities

£2,750Fees from

Course overview

Why Attend
Career development and succession planning are essential for building future leaders, retaining top talent, and ensuring business continuity. Organizations that invest in employee growth create stronger engagement, higher performance, and readiness for key roles. This course provides participants with practical tools to design career pathways, identify high-potential employees, and develop effective succession plans.

Course Methodology
This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, group discussions, talent assessment exercises, planning workshops, and real workplace examples.

Course Objectives

Understand career development principles
Design structured career pathways
Identify high-potential employees
Build effective succession planning systems
Align talent development with business needs
Improve employee retention through growth opportunities
Assess readiness for critical positions
Create practical development and succession plans

Target Audience

HR Professionals
Talent Management Specialists
HR Managers
Organizational Development Staff
Learning and Development Professionals
Department Managers
Anyone involved in talent growth and succession decisions

Target Competencies

Career Planning
Succession Planning
Talent Assessment
Leadership Development
Strategic Thinking
Employee Engagement
Workforce Planning
Decision-Making

Course outline

1Day 1: Putting People First in Talent Strategy
- Putting people before numbers
- People’s wants from their organizations
- Organizations’ wants from their people
- The war for talent
- Today's top priorities in HR
- Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
- Building a people-based strategy
2Day 2: Foundations of Career Management and Succession Planning
- Careers today: the importance of development
- Definition of career development
- The career development process and links to HR
- Essential elements in an integrated career development system
- Definition of succession planning
- Main aims of succession planning and management
- Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
3Day 3: Building Organizational Readiness for Development
- Promoting a development culture
- Career development as a change agent
- Roles and responsibilities in a development culture
- Role of human resources
- Role of line managers
- Role of top management
- Role of employees in development success
4Day 4: Identifying High Potentials and Career Tools
- Identifying key positions
- High potentials and high professionals
- Assessing individual potential
- Best practices to improve management of high potentials
- Spotting, developing, and retaining high potentials
- Competencies as the foundation for career development
- Building competency frameworks
- Coaching, mentoring, and career counseling services
5Day 5: Developing Internal Successors
- Making the business case for succession planning
- Starting a systematic succession planning program
- Refining the succession planning process
- Assessing present work requirements and job performance
- Assessing future work requirements and individual potential
- Closing development gaps through IDPs
- Designing the Individual Development Plan (IDP)

Schedule

Dates and fees

13 upcoming dates in 5 cities. Fees are per delegate; bring colleagues and every seat is discounted. Every date can also be joined live online for £1,280.

All dates as PDF

December 2026

14DEC 14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 daysNext session

MunichGermany · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

January 2027

18JAN 18 - 22 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

AmsterdamNetherlands · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

February 2027

15FEB 15 - 19 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£2,750per delegate2+ people: £2,200 each

March 2027

15MAR 15 - 19 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

MunichGermany · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

April 2027

19APR 19 - 23 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

May 2027

17MAY 17 - 21 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ParisFrance · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

June 2027

21JUN 21 - 25 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

July 2027

19JUL 19 - 23 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

MunichGermany · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

August 2027

16AUG 16 - 20 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

AmsterdamNetherlands · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

September 2027

20SEP 20 - 24 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 daysOur home city

LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom

£2,750per delegate2+ people: £2,200 each

October 2027

18OCT 18 - 22 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

MunichGermany · Classroom

£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each

November 2027

15NOV 15 - 19 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

BarcelonaSpain · Classroom

£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each

December 2027

20DEC 20 - 24 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days

ParisFrance · Classroom

£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each

Live online, on the same dates

Join the class in real time from your office or home: live sessions with the trainer, group discussion, course materials and a certificate of completion. Joining details are emailed before the course starts.

December 2026

14DEC 14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 daysNext session

Live onlineVirtual classroom · join from anywhere