Succession Planning

Discover the potential of those who will become your future leaders.

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TALENT ASSESSMENT AND PROFILES

Understand your collective talent.

HR systems don't store the talent data that you need to understand the talent within your business. Capture the critical experiences, capabilities, and skills required for success in your unique business using viaPeople’s flexible talent assessment tools.

Understand your collective talent

9 BOX AND TALENT REVIEWS

Review talent using proven methods.

Assess performance and potential using viaPeople’s dynamic talent review tools. Create a framework using the 9 box or your preferred method (i.e., 4 box quadrant) to build ownership and consistency across the business.

 

Review talent using proven methods

SUCCESSOR IDENTIFICATION

Prepare for the future.

Identify replacements and recognize potential successors for your critical positions. Analyze readiness so that you can ensure leaders are prepared for future challenges.

Prepare for the future

PROMOTION

Facilitate fair, consistent promotions.

viaPeople’s promotion tool will help you implement a fair, consistent promotion process across your business. Automate nominations, gather stakeholder feedback, and manage committees to make decisions based on data, not politics.

Learn about the Promotions tool.

Facilitate fair, consistent promotions

TALENT SEARCH

Discover the talent within.

Identify internal candidates for promotion and deployment to key initiatives using talent search. Mine your talent base for the skills, experiences, and capabilities important to you.

Discover the talent within
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Benefits of viaPeople's Succession Planning

Visualize Talent

Pinpoint existing talent gaps so you can allocate resources and effectively align recruitment strategies.

Visualize Talent

Avoid Biased Decisions

Use a robust, comprehensive set of talent data for decisions to stave off bias and promote diversity and inclusion. 

Avoid Biased Decisions

Manage Flight Risks

Uncover retention risks and create action plans to develop and engage. 
Manage Flight Risks

Recognize Leaders Early

Identify those with future potential so you can fast-track their development and ensure retention. 

Recognize Leaders Early

Investment Firms Trust viaPeople

Discover firsthand the experiences of our clients within the finance sector.

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“viaPeople is simply the best performance and talent management company covering the financial services sector. After 25 years holding senior human capital roles, I have experience with a variety of systems, and viaPeople continually rises above others. First, the technology UI is simple and intuitive, allowing our employees to engage with the system and provide a robust set of human capital data. Secondly, the viaPeople team also stands out. They are subject-matter experts in all aspects of performance management, and their customer service is fantastic.”
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Justin Kulo
Chief Human Resources Officer, CarVal Investors
“We’ve not only been thrilled with our succession planning results but even more so with viaPeople’s service and responsiveness. Their tools are user-friendly, intuitive, customizable to our specific needs, and have been a big part of our ability to move people processes forward and achieve our organizational goals.”
Andy Donovan (Frankenmuth)
Director of Human Resources
“Using the 9 box tool in viaPeople’s succession planning solution helped our leaders make more accurate talent assessments and create targeted development plans. The tool alleviated the burden of manually tracking and updating, freeing time for valuable discussion and talent planning.”
Garin Danner (The SSI Group)
Vice President of Employee Benefits
“Throughout our partnership, viaPeople has provided expert guidance and strong customer service while displaying a solid understanding of our culture and employee base. The viaPeople team has consistently demonstrated strong communication, a sense of urgency, and flexibility in responding to our questions and requests.”
Tom Gloudeman (Lands’ End)
Head of Talent Development
“viaPeople is a highly collaborative performance management firm that has served as an extension of our leadership team to improve our employee review and feedback processes. viaPeople has strong experience working with private equity firms and provides exceptional responsiveness when needed. We would recommend viaPeople to any organization looking to incorporate a flexible solution and expand / improve upon their employee review and feedback processes.”
John Pacifico (Canaan Partners)
General Partner
“viaPeople has enabled us to provide robust feedback to employees via 360 reviews. The team at viaPeople has provided best practices, and suggestions on how to further enhance the system, and our approach to reviews. The system is easy to use and administer, and their customer service team is helpful, quick to respond to our questions or requests for adjustments, and proactive whenever they spot a potential issue.”
Lindy Smiley (Starwood Property Trust)
Senior Vice President
“Throughout our partnership with viaPeople, they have provided expert guidance and have displayed a solid understanding of our culture and employee base. We work well with the support team, who are efficient and very supportive, consistently demonstrating strong communication skills and fast and accurate turnaround on any changes that need to be made.”
Lesley Mackinnon (Coller Capital)
Head of HR Operations
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Ultimate Guide to Talent Development Using the 9 Box

Use the 9 box to target leader development efforts.

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