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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.

Benefit Feature

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

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”

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
 
Talent Suite side-by-side comparison
Side-by-side comparisons empower succession pool owners with easy, visual access to candidate suitability information

Additional Information

> Datasheet: Saba Succession


Saba Workforce Planning - NEW!

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.

Benefit 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

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

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
 
Organizational Chart Comparison
Saba Workforce Planning takes rich people information, not just positions and budgets, into account as managers and talent administrators model their future workforce needs using an organizational chart paradigm.

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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Features

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

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

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

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
 

PDI screen shot

See how employees track assigned competencies such as “Strategic Thinking” on their Success Plans

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.

Benefit 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

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 criteria

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
 

Internal Recruiting Screenshot

See how employees can search for and apply to internal opportunities, increasing retention and engaging employees in your talent processes.

 

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Extend Your Talent Management Initiatives to Informal People Processes With Saba Social

Informal contributions are at the core of how work gets done in organizations, but they are rarely visible to management or considered during formal people processes. Saba Social gives organizations an unprecedented level of knowledge about their talent, which translates into better agility to respond to a changing business environment. Management can look at who are the most valuable contributors and where knowledge lies. HR executives have new insight into the value and potential of their workforce, providing new ways to identify star performers who should be rewarded and new ways to groom future leaders.

Benefit Feature

Innovate faster by tapping into “hidden” experts throughout the enterprise

  • Rich people profiles
  • Form connections to trusted advisors throughout the enterprise
  • Easy-to-use tools for knowledge contribution
  • One-click publishing of Saba Centra recordings

Attract and retain the best talent

  • Create the connected corporate community in which people want to work
  • Give workers a comprehensive set of social software tools to find the answers they need: blogs, wikis, discussion boards, social network management
  • Embedded real-time collaboration, including presence and Web conferencing
  • Communities of practice automatically created around job functions, cross-functional initiatives, required skills, and more
  • Visibility into the community-assessed value of informal contributions

Design performance processes to take into account the full picture of employee performance

  • Find and reward the most valuable informal contributors

Groom the right future leaders and valuable professionals

  • Unified user profile that incorporates information captured from formal and informal people processes

Validate expertise

  • Tap into the information that’s already available through competency frameworks and certification programs

Drive higher productivity

  • Leverage all of the rich information available about your people: skills, job experience, education, and interests
  • Robust search capabilities, aggregating formal and informal knowledge assets and experts
  • Embedded real-time collaboration, including presence and Web conferencing
 

Communities Practice Screenshot

See how users can interact with each other in private collaboration spaces or public communities of practice.

Additional Information

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Saba Collaboration provides enterprise-wide learning, performance and talent management solutions with a highly scalable, Web-based collaboration system that facilitates knowledge transfer and high-impact informal learning between individuals and subject matter experts.

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