HCI’s Leadership Development & Succession
Strategist (LDSS) Certification Course Accelerate leadership readiness and cultivate talent for sustainable growth
Vertical Human Resource
Type Certification-led
Sub-Category Talent
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Two Day Course Accelerate leadership readiness and cultivate talent for
sustainable growth. Take succession planning beyond the
C-suite and plan leadership development solutions that
address competency gaps, identify high-potential talent,
facilitate engagement and drive growth throughout the
organisation.
Sustainable Future Growth
In order to remain competitive, today and in the future,
organisations need a steady pipeline of high-performing
and high-potential talent. Leaders need an effective
process to pinpoint the knowledge, skills and experience
that build strong future leaders. To close leadership gaps,
the process for developing leaders and managing
succession plans must be flexible, scalable and
repeatable.
This course provides a framework for aligning leadership
readiness strategies with business goals, developing
meaningful analytics and building robust talent pipelines
for future growth.
2-day interactive session
In-person open enrolment or in-house offering
Includes industry-recognised certification
Supports HRCI and SHRM re-certification
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HCI's The Strategic Human Resources
Business Partner (sHRBP)
HCI’s Change Management for HR (CMHR)
HCI's Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)
HCI's Human Capital Strategist (HCS)
HCI's Leadership Development & Succession
Strategist (LDSS)
HCI’s Coaching for Engagement and
Performance (CEP)
HCI's Strategic Talent Acquisition (STA)
HCI's Analytics for Talent Management (ATM)
Course Background
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Course Background
What You’ll Learn
Go beyond the 9-Box and integrate a variety of talent planning, development and deployment
activities to move your business forward;
Differentiate high potential talent from high performers;
Create a modern, scalable and repeatable structure for leadership readiness and succession;
Build the capability of your manager population to conduct talent reviews and make data-
driven succession and decisions;
Align learning and development solutions with current and future skill/capability/talent
requirements.
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Audience
Who Should Attend
This curriculum is for HR professionals looking for an integrated approach to
succession management and leadership development that aligns to
business strategy and moves the organisation toward its goals. Some of the
roles that will benefit from completing the course include:
HR practitioner, manager and leader;
HR Business Partner;
Director of Learning;
Learning and Development Manager;
Leadership Development Manager;
Organisational Development Manager;
Business Unit Manager/Director;
Succession Planning/Management leader;
Anyone who supports the identification, preparation and deployment
of talent for critical roles.
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HCI’s Approach to Learning
Human Capital Institute
provides solutions that
advance the practice of
human capital and strategic
talent management. HCI is a
global clearinghouse and
catalyst for new ideas and
next practices and a resource
for the most progressive
organisations and executives
in the world, with over
20,000 participants trained
through our education
programmes.
HCI courses use the most
current insights, perspectives
and original research to
create a highly adaptive,
interactive, and collaborative
learning experience that
incorporates:
■ intense focus on building
strategic perspective and
enabling better decision-
making;
■ guided action planning to
ensure on-the-job utilisation
and produce measurable
results;
■ a blended, learner-centred
approach to maximise
engagement and outcomes;
and
■ an extensive library of
learning resources and
comprehensive toolkits for
deeper learning and
application.
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Identifying critical roles;
FedEx: identifying critical roles and assess
leadership risk with data;
Talent segmentation activity.
Module 3 | ASSESS
High potential identification: your current
vs future state;
Building talent pools activity;
Talent assessment and review;
What to evaluate? Ability, performance,
aspiration, engagement and beyond;
Amazon: leadership principles;
Confirmation bias;
Iris Bohnet, Harvard University: using data
and behavioural insights to design an
unbiased organisation;
Tools for making data-driven talent
decisions.
Curriculum Guide Day One
Introduction
HCI’s Strategic Leadership Readiness
Approach;
Learning design, environment and
expectations;
Course overview.
Module 1 | ALIGN
Kaiser Permanente: How your business
works and where it’s going;
The imperative skillsets for tomorrow’s
leaders;
Business strategy alignment;
Aligning business strategies with leadership
capability activity;
HCI Strategic Workforce Planning Model;
External influencing factors;
Internal influencing factors;
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts:
leadership development in a constantly
changing landscape;
Evaluating factor and risk activity;
Presenting your business strategy analysis
activity.
Module 2 | IDENTIFY
Identifying skill, competency and capability
requirements;
Sample leadership models and frameworks;
Guidelines for defining a leadership
framework: Bentall Kennedy case study;
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Curriculum Guide Day Two
Establishing visibility and transparency;
Mapping stakeholders;
Communication plan development.
Module 6 | ENABLE
Framework for defining a cultural vision: HP
case study;
Creating a culture that supports leadership
development and succession activity;
Kellogg Company: People Development
Committees – the business of owning talent
management;
Leadership communication;
Systems, processes and tools required to
support a leadership readiness strategy;
HCI – Workday 2014 Successful Strategic
Workforce Planning through Collaboration
Research: Tying it all together with tools
and technologies;
Leveraging technology tools;
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts:
leadership development in a constantly
changing landscape;
Developing recommendations for
upgrading systems and processes.
Introduction
Day one recap;
Day two overview;
Preview end of course tasks.
Module 4 | DESIGN
Korn Ferry: Developing leaders who can
drive real change;
Career pathways;
Unique perspectives on talent mobility;
Rapid leadership readiness approaches;
Mastercard: using a bespoke approach to
accelerate high-potential development;
Whirlpool: identifying and preparing high
potentials to lead a function of business;
Innovative, personalised and flexible
leadership development approaches;
Blending formal, informal and collaborative
learning;
GE case study;
Haworth: designing and executing
experiential learning programmes in a
global organisation;
Concept mapping and application activity.
Module 5 | EQUIP
Equipping managers to support growth,
mobility and development activity;
Conducting talent reviews;
Guidance for feedback and development
conversation;
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Why HCI?
AUDIENCE
PROFILE
195, 000 HCI members
worldwide;
18 % in emerging
markets;
96 % of the Fortune
500;
77 % of the Inc 500;
52, 000 mid-sized
firms;
726 colleges &
universities;
all major federal
agencies and all
brances of the military.
Online Talent Communities
world's largest aggregator
of open source news,
information and research at
the intersection of human
capital and business
strategy.
access to over 100, 000
articles, white papers and
case studies;
digital library of over 1,800
webcasts, podcasts and
videos;
daily feed of over 200
expert blogs.
HCI Alumni
Since 2005, more than 20,000
progressive talent leaders have
taken an HCI education course.
As a participant, you will receive
complimentary Community
Membership with HCI.
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Certification - Exam Info
CERTIFICATION
In order to receive your
certification you must pass a
test receiving a score of 80%
or higher.
RE-CERTIFICATION
Each certification is valid
for 3 year period;
Renewal is based on
continuing education
credits that demonstrate
currency in the field;
Credits may be earned by
attending HCI learning
events, completing
additional courses or
through outside
educational activities;
The accumulation of 60
credits extends the
certification for three
additional years.
THE EXAM
Multiple choice exam;
Exam must be taken
within six months of
course completion – no
extension of time given;
Exam consists of between
40-60 questions
depending on which
course is taken;
Pass score of 80%;
Up to three attempts
provided to take the
exam.
CREDITS
1. Approved for 13 General
recertification credit hours
towards PHR®, SPHR® and
GPHR® recertification
through the HR Certification
Institute;
2. SHRM has pre-approved this
certification for 13
Professional Development
Credits (PDCs) toward SHRM-
CPSM
or SHRM-SCPSM
certifications. The Human
Capital Institute is recognised
by SHRM to offer Professional
Development Credits (PDCs)
for courses named above.
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Faculty
Ron Thomas MHCS SWP GHCS CEP
Cited by CIPD as one of the
top five HR thinkers in the
MENA region, Ron Thomas
MHCS SWP GHCS is
Managing Director at Strategy
Focused Group - MENA based
in Dubai.
Ron was formerly CEO, Great
Place to Work Gulf and the
former CHRO for the RGTS
Group in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. A senior faculty
member of the Human
Capital Institute (HCI), he
holds HCI certification as a
Master Human Capital
Strategist (MHCS) and
Strategic Workforce Planner
(SWP) and more.
He has held senior level
positions within Xerox HR
Services, IBM and Martha
Stewart Living. Board
memberships include the
Harvard Business Review
Advisory Council, McKinsey
Quarterly Executive Online
Panel and HCI's Expert
Advisory Council on Talent
Management Strategy.
His writing has been featured
in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Crain's NY
Business, Workforce
Management Magazine,
TLNT.com, CEO.com, People
and Management Magazine
and Vertical Distinct.
A sought after keynote
speaker, he was recently
named one of the "50 Most
Talented Global HR Leaders in
Asia" by the World HRD
Congress.
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Faculty
Sharma Kumari
Sharma Kumari is founder of
Step by Stepz Solutions based
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
She has more than 25 years of
experience consulting,
coaching, and training clients
in HR, change management,
and behavioural
communication. She has
worked in numerous
industries with assignments in
Asia-Pacific, Australia, Europe,
and North America. Her most
recent formal employment
was at a shared services
centre of an international
organisation with more than
50,000 employees worldwide.
As a Training & Talent
Development Lead, Sharma
managed employee
development from graduate
trainees to senior leadership
including succession
planning. She also served as
an adjunct lecturer at a local
university on the topic of
“Thinking Skills &
Communication.” As an
accomplished Certified
Assessor for Assessment &
Development Centres,
Sharma has been the lead
assessor for more than 40
candidates earmarked for mid
to senior positions. She is also
a Certified Talent
Management Assessor,
PROSCI Certified Change
Management Practitioner,
Impact System Coach, NLP
Practitioner, and Coloured
Brain Communication Trainer.
Sharma is qualified to
administer DISC & WorkPlace
Big5 profiling tools and has
been recognised as 101 Top
Global Training &
Development Minds at the
World HRD Congress in
Mumbai. Sharma has an MA
in Communication
Management and a BA Hons
in Mass Communication. She
is a Professional Member and
Exco of the Malaysian
Association of Professional
Speakers and a member of
both the Malaysian Institute
of Management and
Malaysian Institute of HR
Management.
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engineer at Concentra.
As a consultant, he was a project lead on over a dozen projects spanning the manufacturing, healthcare, oil & gas, internet, banking & finance, and education verticals. His experience included projects at Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies such as GE Medical Systems, BP Amoco, and William Blair. In addition to consulting, he has worked part-time as a corporate trainer and obtained certifications in Java (SCJP, SCJD) and Microsoft technologies (MCP+SiteBuilding). He has certifications in CIO, eCommerce, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
Additional Information
Important Note 1. This course is brought to
you in partnership with The
Human Capital Institute.
2. Terms and conditions
apply. Please visit Vertical
Distinct for the full terms
Locations
Geographies covered :
Asia Pacific | Africa | Europe
Complete and updated list of
all cities and dates are
available on
www.verticaldistinct.com
Faculty The course is delivered by a
single approved faculty
member. Faculty are assigned
to teach classes in any
number of locations. Changes
to the schedule may arise
from time to time and may
result in changes to assigned
faculty.
Prerequisites
None applicable.
Inclusives A meal and light refreshments will be provided at this course.
This price is inclusive of the cost of taking the exam.
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