{"id":26839,"date":"2017-05-07T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=26839"},"modified":"2017-05-25T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:39:13","slug":"is-your-succession-plan-designed-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/about-gov\/is-your-succession-plan-designed-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Succession Plan Designed for Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/leadership.jpg&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; 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to help them grow in their own skills, expertise and effective use of their talents.\u00a0 By doing so, I would be accomplishing three essential objectives of whatever position I held.\u00a0 Those are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would be demonstratively leading my team, and its members, in ways in which they individually and collectively could and would be successful.<\/li>\n<li>I would be accelerating and continuing to develop my own leadership style into its most effective set of methods and techniques best-suited for me and my job.<\/li>\n<li>And I would be growing in a manner, and at a rate in which I would be more fully preparing myself for the next opportunity to advance in my organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last one is particularly important, because it ties into the first objective so directly.\u00a0 You see, in every organization, there are opportunities for one or more persons to advance.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s a promotion, or significantly new and greater responsibilities associated with a program or project.\u00a0 Or perhaps a very new service or product opportunity is going to be assigned to a high performer.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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