Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

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Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s leadership succession management process is based on sustained commitment to development. The process looks at the leadership talent life cycle from an end-to-end perspective. This starts with the on-boarding of new leaders, identification of top talent, and steps leading to promotion. The manager is ultimately accountable for the high-potential leader’s development, with support from the leadership succession management consultants.

Since 2005, we have identified a yearly average of thirteen high-potential leaders. Sixty percent of the high-potential population over the last three years has either been promoted or given expanded roles as an outcome of the systematic process Kaiser Permanente ...