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case study
At the request of the Board
of Directors, telos led the
CEO and Executive Leadership Team succession planning process for one of the nation’s leading specialty retailers.
This engagement aligned aspects of corporate culture, business strategy, changing industry dynamics, and leadership development,
all designed to prepare the entire organization for transition and ever-greater levels of success in the future.
strategy. leadership. change.
“People are unwilling to change until they know what won’t.”
—Rick Simmons, CEO the telos institute
succession planning.
Our succession planning approach provides world-class companies across all industry sectors with objective, evidence-based leadership practices to help ensure the right leaders are ready, when and where they are needed – now and in the future.
This approach encompasses all phases of the succession planning process. We collaborate with our clients to customize programs to best meet their needs, and we help them document and institutionalize the succession planning process. At telos, we partner to:
• Align board views on business strategy, so that boards and executives are in a position to better identify the kind of future leader they need
• Build pro les for the CEOs and leaders of today and tomorrow, enabling potential candidates to be objectively measured against accurate competency pro les
• Identify and assess internal and external candidates, using our rigorous assessment methodologies
• Create a development plan for the internal talent pipeline, involving training, mentoring, feedback, and coaching
• Implement a development plan speci cally for near- and mid-term C-suite and senior leader candidates
• Transfer knowledge to sustain succession planning, and enable boards to meet their long-term succession planning responsibilities
A proper succession strategy extends beyond the C-suite. Our powerful diagnostic methods create a more complete view of the internal and external pipeline, and reveal how the organization’s succession planning is—or is not—producing the leaders it needs. We then help clarify, enhance, design, and build a more sustainable process that results
in a population of ready-now senior leaders.
“The telos team worked seamlessly together and exceeded our expectations on all fronts. There were some skeptical voices in the organization before we began this e ort, but these same voices are now the most vocal champions for the work that was conducted and the outcomes that resulted.”
—Owner and President of International Sales