Leadership Development

and Succession Planning

Group Members:
Lachuman Ghalley 031812
Kinley Wangmo 031810
Karma Lhaden 031809
• Nature of Leadership Development
• Succession Planning
• Exploring Personal Qualities and Leadership
Traits
• 360 Degree Feedback System
 Leadership Development
• Traditionally leadership development has focused
on developing the abilities and attitudes of
individuals.
• Different personal traits and characteristics can help
or hinder a person’s leadership effectiveness and
require formalized programs for developing
leadership competencies
The success of leadership development
efforts has been linked to three variables

Individual learner characteristics

The quality and nature of the leadership program
Genuine support for behavioral change from the
leaders supervisor
 Succession Planning
• A systematic effort and process of identifying
and developing candidates for key leadership and
professional positions over time to ensure the
continuity of management and leadership in an
organization.
 Why Succession Planning?
• To identify replacement needs
• To provide opportunities for high potential
workers (retention)
• To increase the pool of promotable
employees
• To support the implementation of a
strategic business plan
• To guide individual in their career path
• To improve ability to respond to changing
environmental demands
Challenges in Succession Planning
• Lack of interest form senior executives
• Inability to find the future talent needs of
the organization
• Lack of succession planning tools and
career development tools
• Inability to locate a pool of active and
passive candidate
• Lack of funding for leadership
development
 Benefits of Succession Planning

• Early identification of prospective leaders

• Success rate for executives in replacement
positions
• Employees satisfaction
Exploring Personal qualities and leadership
traits.

•Personal qualities are personal characteristics of a

individual. They are what make up one’s personality.
Important personal qualities are:-
Hard working
Bold
Empathy
Ability to listen
Curiosity
flexible
Practical
Ways to discover and develop your personal
qualities.

• Don’t compare yourself with others-but do approach people

who inspire you.
• OVECOME YOUR WEAKNESS AND WORK TOGETHER
WITH STRENGHTS.
• Eliminate your weaknesses by partnering with others.
• Use failure as motivation.
• Now is a time of pop-up engagement, leadership and success.
 Leadership traits
• Leadership traits are the personal qualities
that shape effective leaders.
• Dr.Abdul Kalam’s 6 leadership traits
1. Vision.
2. Explorer.
3. How to manage failure?
4. Courage to take decisions.
5. Nobility in management.
6. Work with integrity.
Exploring leadership traits for
effective leaders.
• For example, emotional intelligence,
resourcefulness and flexibility of a leader,
help employees complete initiatives and
meet business goals.
• Personality traits such as being
hardworking, practical and bold enough to
take risks in the business.
• Other leadership traits like empathy,
willingness to collaborate and the ability to
listen assists the leader, allowing them to
reach out people outside their circles and
understand their perspective.
360 degree feedback system
• 360 degree feedback system is a form of feedback for leaders in which
their skills, effectiveness and influence as a leader are evaluated by a set
of colleagues.
• It helps leaders to learn and grow.
• They are evaluated through questionnaire and ratings
 Step 1.360 degree YES OR NO.
Decide whether you wish to do 360 degree feedback.

Step 2.select focus and questionnaire

Choose the question already provided in booklet or design
your own questionnaire
Step 3. select raters and distribute questionnaire
Decide who to ask to be your raters.

Step 4.collect data

Choose how to collect questionnaire.
External consultant
Internal consultant

Step 5.analyse data

Qualitative(what are people saying about you)?
Quantitative(count and average scores on each Step 6.follow through
questionaire Use the feedback to identify leadership needs
Set learning goals.