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Individual Development Planning: The Government Way

Martha Lambie is the deputy regional commissioner for the Denver Region of the Social Security Administration. She oversees the Denver Region’s 53 field offices in six states. Martha is passionate and driven when it comes to employee development and succession planning.

Here, Martha Lambie outlines the evolution of the Denver Region’s remarkable four-part employee development planning strategy.

Part 1: Succession Management

Succession management was identified in 2006 as a critical area that the Region needed to intentionally concentrate its efforts on. Our experience was that while we were in a better position in terms of recruiting and hiring new employees, we still were not seeing a great ...