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Proactive Succession Management with Saba Succession
Smart organizations realize they must develop the bench strength they need to be successful. Through proactive planning, these organizations avoid talent gap pitfalls that lead to lost knowledge, missed deadlines, and lowered business productivity. Saba Succession is specifically focused on the development of key employees to mitigate the risks that occur when talent leaves the company.
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Reduce and manage operational risk |
- Establish and manage talent pools for succession and/or career development
- Empower managers to recognize and identify potential and flight risk within their teams
- Ensure effective knowledge transfer and development of succession candidates
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Proactively develop and prepare bench strength |
- Assign goals, competencies, and targeted learning to candidates
- Ensure assigned succession-related development activities appear as a seamless part of “My Success Plan”
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Enhance workforce effectiveness and retention |
- Empower individuals to share their skills and experiences
- Provide opportunities for advancement via succession and development opportunities
- Engage employees by enabling them to search for and apply to public talent pools
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Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Succession
Saba Workforce Planning
Organizations are quickly recognizing that the ability to execute their strategic plan relies on having the right people with the right skills and experience to bring the organization to the next level. Saba Workforce Planning is the industry’s first solution that moves beyond general headcount-based planning to enable organizations to model their future based on unique people profiles and position requirements.
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Feature |
| Proactively identify future workforce needs before they become critical |
- Model future workforce allocation through familiar visuals tools such as org charts and extensible 9-box grids
- Easily create and save multiple model iterations
- Visual indicators highlight positions with no successors, critical jobs and flight or retirement risks
- Drill down into detailed profiles on position incumbents that include skill gaps, development needs, and developmental plans
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Ensure you have the right people in the right roles at the right time to achieve organizational success |
- Use current learning, performance, and talent data to guide workforce planning decisions
- Drag and drop individuals within your model to represent their future growth
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Reduce the risks associated with staffing gaps and turnover |
- Create a people management system of record to gain a global view of positions and incumbents
- “Succession view” of org charts highlights departure risks and succession candidates for incumbents
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Additional Information
> Datasheet: Saba Workforce Planning
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Expertise Identification and Assessment
Effective career development and talent planning cannot be done in a vacuum. It requires an understanding of the key skills, competencies, and expertise your workforce possesses. The Saba Foundation provides a unified platform to manage key people management capabilities -- such as competency assessment, expertise location, career management, development planning, and job and role definition -- across our platform.
These capabilities provide a common currency to discuss and measure talent consistently. With Saba’s competency management capabilities, organizations are able to define the key skills and capabilities required of the workforce, and communicate these requirements to individuals and teams. Effective career planning is enabled via the ability to designate career interests on individual profiles and perform gap analyses against these interests.
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Consistently measure competency proficiency |
- Perform competency-based or questionnaire-based assessments to determine proficiency in key skills and competencies
- Ensure consistent, balanced feedback with self, manager, or multi-rater (360º) assessments
- Rate individual competencies or their underlying behaviors for more consistent ratings
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Easily locate expertise across the organization |
- Identify and contact competency experts for knowledge transfer and mentoring
- Find expertise side by side with other formal and informal knowledge assets in Knowledge Center searches
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Increase employee engagement and retention via career planning |
- Provide individuals with access to designated career paths
- Enable individuals to view the job and competency requirements of various positions, and self-select career interests
- Enable individuals and managers to analyze competency gaps and access learning recommendations specifically designed to fill those gaps
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Enable faster deployment of new performance, development or talent processes |
- Quickly populate in-house developed or third-party competency content via Saba’s import capabilities
- Utilize the option to deploy the PDI Performance Framework, Saba Edition to kick-start competency management efforts
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Additional Information
> Datasheet: PDI Performance Framework, Saba Edition
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Internal Recruiting - NEW!
Succession planning helps organizations mitigate the risk of departures, but if retention is the goal, the talent strategy must also include a focus on internal recruiting – building a strong culture of mobility and internal opportunity. Saba Talent Suite now includes expanded support for internal recruiting processes, helping employers increase the likelihood that an employee seeking a new challenge or expanded role can do this within the organization, rather than seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
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Feature |
| Engage employees and empower them to manage their own career progression |
- Internal opportunity boards that allow individuals to apply to selected talent or succession pools that they find are a good fit for their ambitions
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| Find the best candidates for every opportunities |
- Represent both internal and external candidates in the same talent pool
- Use existing competency frameworks to identify key success riteria
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| Easily compare internal and external candidates |
- Leverage all of the detailed profile information you already have stored in Saba on internal candidates
- Link out to external profiles from sites such as LinkedIn
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