Dear Diane
Your question about succession planning is quite a timely one as a small number of institutions, including Imperial College London, have recently received SDF project funding for a project called 'Succession and Talent Management -  from stories to tools'. 

The aim of the collaborating institutions is to use their experience in establishing succession and talent management schemes to enable the creation of some generic tools for succession and talent management, for the use of institutions considering the introduction of such schemes

Objectives of the project
*	To enable participating institutions to articulate the learning from their experience of establishing succession and talent management schemes
*	To adapt a small number of materials from participating institutions so that they can be used by others

Outputs
*	3-4 tools or guidance notes based on the experience of participating institutions and suitable for use by other institutions (for example, a 360 degree profiling tool, presentation slides for managers' briefings)
*	An update to the LFHE's existing website on succession management
*	A workshop to support use of the tools and guidance notes
*	Resources for the UHR/LFHE programme for HR business partners (in addition to the use of this programme as part of the testing process)


At our first meeting last week we agreed the first step was to review the usefulness of the LFHE website http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/publications/sm/ 
by finding out more about what various parts of the staff development community would find most helpful.

We will be sending round a Survey Monkey survey very shortly and hope that as many of you as possible would be willing to respond

Best wishes
Judy


Judy Barnett
Talent Development Manager
Imperial College London
 
Tel: + 44 (0)207 594 5553
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http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/staffdevelopment/talentdevelopment 



-----Original Message-----
From: Staff Development Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Diane Turner
Sent: 22 February 2011 10:43
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Subject: [SDF] Succession Planning and Skills matrices

Hi

I've been approached by one of our Faculties who are looking at 
succession planning. As part of this project they are looking to develop 
a skills matrix to record existing skills and thus identify future 
potential gaps. They have looked at a couple of software packages but 
are wondering if designing their own spreadsheet might be sufficient.

Is anyone using or know about anything similar that they would be 
willing to share?

Many thanks.

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Kind Regards

Diane Turner
HR Adviser (Business Development)
University Of Sheffield
Department of Human Resources
301 Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2HL
Tel 0114 222 1484
Fax 0114 222 2469 

I work half time and my normal working days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday am.