How to Communicate Your Succession Plan in 3 Steps
Communication is necessary for the execution of a successful succession plan. To get stakeholders onboard, a business case for succession planning needs to be made and communicated – in the …
Author: Helen Schroeder
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Knowledge Transfer Guide
Discover the key to managing succession transitions with SIGMA’s Knowledge Transfer Guide. Teaching a new hire the ins and outs of a key position in your organization can seem like …
A Case Study on Succession Planning: Outsource or Do-it-Yourself?
Meet Sandy. Sandy is the Vice President of Human Resources (VP of HR) at a mid-sized tech company in California. Her company has a strong executive team, however, most of …
Developing a Succession Plan that Supports Diversity in the Workplace
Looking to Improve Diversity in the Workplace? When making strategic HR decisions, it is important to take diversity and inclusion into account. Long-standing systemic barriers have prevented minorities from attaining …
How to Align Your Succession Plan with Your Strategic Plan
“Strategic planning is worthless, unless there is first a strategic vision” — John Naisbitt, New York Times bestselling author and public speaker Succession planning is strategic planning. In fact, succession …
How a Growth Mindset Can Lead to Success
Are great employees born or made? How you answer this question can tell you a lot about your mindset. Your mindset is an established set of attitudes that determine how …
How to Use Leadership Assessments in HR Programs
Over the last two years human resources (HR) services have been in demand like never before. Businesses have witnessed immense disruption as first the pandemic, then equity, diversity, and inclusion …
Virtues and Vices: How to Balance Your Leader Character
Aristotle first defined character as a set of virtuous habits. Since then, researchers at the Ivey Business School and SIGMA Assessment Systems Inc. have developed a standardized way for organizations …
How Character Can Give You a Competitive Advantage
What does your organization look for when recruiting a new CEO? If you’re like most, leadership character is not at the top of your hiring criteria. In fact, assessments of …
What is Leadership Character?
“You can be a character, or you can possess character. Sometimes these two traits don’t go hand in hand.” – Meghan M. Biro[i] Character has long been overlooked as a …