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Talent Management for C-level and Beyond: Session 4 (Video Training) (PowerPoint PPTX Slide Deck)
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This is session 4 of an online training program on Talent Management for C-level (and beyond), developed by Dr. Charlie Bishop.
It includes:
• Training presentations
• Video training (MP4)
• Leadership Pipeline® Dashboard (DOCX)
• How a Board Should "Talk Talent" with Its CEO whitepaper (PDF)
Dr. Charlie Bishop is an accomplished, seasoned executive and published author. Charlie has over 20+ years of experience in senior level positions at Fortune 100 companies, including Federal Express, Baxter, and Bank of America, leading these organizations through significant changes.
Session 4 of the *“Talent Management for C-Suite and Beyond”* program, led by Dr. Charlie Bishop, focuses on a practical ambition for senior leadership: making succession planning a true “non-event”—a gradual, well-informed transition that feels unsurprising when it occurs. Anchored by Anne Mulcahy’s observation that effective succession should be “gradual and thoughtful” with continuous sharing of knowledge and perspective, the session frames succession readiness as an ongoing C-level conversation rather than a periodic, high-drama exercise.
A major theme is that C-level executives, boards, and investors need *valid, differentiating, decision-useful* talent and organizational capability insights—not generic HR detail. Dr. Bishop highlights concrete mechanisms to keep momentum and “bake in” talent strategy into how the business is run, including: using a strategy “field of play” to engage leaders in what talent must deliver; introducing a developmental “heat” view of stretch roles; forcing a senior-level discussion on the organization’s philosophy of talent (to avoid inconsistent leader-by-leader preferences); building a stronger V2 of the Leadership Pipeline Dashboard; and even reconfiguring HR to operate more like a “talent manufacturing plant.”
The session then distills execution into three mandatory, sequential levers that make succession planning reliably “low drama”: Alignment, Information, and Consumption. Alignment requires a tight partnership between executive leadership and HR so the organization is truly “on the same page.” Information emphasizes generating segmented, high-quality individual and organizational data—specifically calling out the Human Asset Inventory® as a way to gather credible inputs that pass the C-level “smell test.” Consumption focuses on packaging those insights into a C-level decision support view via the Leadership Pipeline Dashboard®—including standardized “Insight Reports,” a Bench-Strength Matrix landing view, and a Strategic Deployment Matrix that pressures the organization to place top talent against the most critical roles and business issues (with the ability to drill down into profiles and apply filters).
Producing a pipeline of talent required for the future is broadly recognized across the world as a business imperative! At the same time, there is a serious disparity—Boards of Directors and C-Level executives rate their "lack of a leadership pipeline" as a major deterrent to innovation, growth, productivity, and profitability.
Dr. Bishop's program aims to change this by providing a proven framework and turnkey toolkit—scalable to any size of organization. Our methodology is a refreshing and different, common-sense approach, which will work for you and for your organization. You will learn best practices discovered in premiere organizations, such as FedEx, Baxter International, Bank of America, and other firms. You will also come to discover and understand how we have truly over-complicated this talent issue. Thus, this program will be about simplification and "common sense" workable solutions.
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Dr. Charlie Bishop is an accomplished, seasoned executive and published author. Charlie has over 20+ years of experience in senior level positions at Fortune 100 companies, including Federal Express, Baxter, and Bank of America, leading these organizations through significant changes.
His book, Making Change Happen One Person at a Time, is published by AMACOM and cited by a study group
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