Live workshopLeadership Development training for teams
Talent Management and Succession Planning for Leaders
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Talent Management and Succession Planning for Leaders
- Duration
- 1 Day (8 hrs; two 4-hr sessions)
- Tuition
- $495.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
If your best manager left tomorrow, who does the job?
Most organizations discover their succession gap on the day somebody resigns. Not because leaders are careless, but because succession planning is never urgent until it is, and by then the runway is two weeks.
This workshop makes it concrete. Participants identify which roles in their own organization would genuinely hurt to lose, which is often not the senior ones but the person who is the only one who knows how something works. They learn to assess potential separately from current performance, which is the single most common mistake: promoting the best performer into a job that requires different abilities.
HR leaders use this where key person risk is high, where the same few people are single points of failure, or where a retirement wave is visible and nothing has been done. Senior leaders use it where the bench is thin and every opening goes external. It is built for real constraints, including civil service structures and public sector rules that limit how positions and promotions work, so the plan has to fit the system you actually operate in.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered in two 4-hour sessions
- A risk map of your own organization's real single points of failure
- Frameworks for assessing potential separately from performance
- A succession map for your area that you build during the workshop
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The day opens with risk rather than talent. Participants map their own organization for the roles where a departure would cause genuine damage, and it is rarely the org chart's answer. The knowledge that lives in one head, the relationship one person holds, the process only one person has ever run. Most leaders find at least one exposure they had not registered.
The middle is assessment. Participants learn to separate potential from performance, and to name what readiness actually requires for a specific role rather than treating it as a general quality. They practice the development conversation that is honest about a gap without being discouraging, and learn why the highest performer is often the wrong successor.
The last stretch is the plan and its constraints. Participants build development that produces readiness rather than goodwill, work out what can be done inside their structural rules, and practice the conversation with someone who wants a role they are not ready for. They leave with a succession map for their own area.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Identify the roles where a departure would cause real damage
- Find the knowledge, relationships, and processes that live in one head
- Assess potential separately from current performance
- Define what readiness requires for a specific role
- Build development that produces readiness rather than goodwill
- Plan continuity within real structural and civil service constraints
- Handle the conversation with someone who wants a role they are not ready for
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for senior leaders, managers, and HR professionals responsible for workforce continuity. Leaders focused on developing individuals day to day can pair it with Employee Motivation and Performance Management.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$495.00 per participant
Talent Management and Succession Planning for Leaders is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $495 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
- Optional courseware: the Talent Management & Succession Planning Student Guide (Logical Operations) is available at $60 per participant and is not included in the course price
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Leadership Development training
Leadership training for managers and emerging leaders
Most managers were promoted for being good at the work, not for leading people who do it. DWC leadership training gives new and experienced managers practical tools for motivating and managing performance, leading change, improving processes, and developing the next generation of leaders through talent management and succession planning.
Workshops are built around your organization's real situations before delivery, and they combine well into a leadership development series for a cohort of new managers.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Is this training for new managers or experienced leaders?
Both. Workshops range from managerial leadership for new supervisors to leading change, talent management, and succession planning for experienced leaders.
Can leadership workshops be combined into a program?
Yes. Many organizations combine several workshops into a leadership development series for a cohort of managers, scheduled around their work.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.