CSP Talent Pipeline & Bench Strength Development Flashcards
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The '70-20-10 development model' in succession planning suggests that leadership development comes primarily from:
Answer: 70% challenging job experiences, 20% developmental relationships, 10% formal education and training.
The 70-20-10 model posits that the most impactful leadership development comes from experiential learning (70%), followed by social learning through coaching and mentoring (20%), and formal training (10%).
A succession planner discovers that several critical roles have only one identified successor, creating 'single points of failure.' The recommended action is to:
Answer: Broaden talent searches and accelerate development of additional candidates to create redundancy.
Single-point succession dependency is a high organizational risk; building redundancy by developing multiple ready candidates per role ensures continuity even if a leading candidate departs.
What is the MAIN benefit of 'rotational assignments' in a talent pipeline program?
Answer: They expose high-potential candidates to diverse functions, broadening enterprise perspective and cross-functional leadership skills.
Rotational assignments build strategic breadth, cross-functional relationships, and systems thinking — capabilities that distinguish enterprise-ready leaders from those with only deep functional expertise.
When evaluating a candidate's 'leadership potential,' which factor is considered the MOST reliable long-term predictor of success in senior roles?
Answer: Learning agility — the ability to learn from experience and apply insights to new, unfamiliar challenges.
Learning agility is widely recognized by talent management research (including Korn Ferry's work) as the single best predictor of future executive success, outperforming tenure, education, or current performance alone.
A succession planner uses 'talent segmentation' to prioritize development investment. Which segment should receive the HIGHEST investment?
Answer: High-potential, high-performance employees identified as future senior leaders.
High-potential, high-performance employees represent the greatest return on development investment as they are most likely to accelerate into critical roles and deliver outsized organizational impact.
Which of the following BEST describes 'succession pipeline transparency' and its organizational benefit?
Answer: Communicating to identified candidates that they are in the pipeline and sharing their development plans with them.
Informing candidates of their pipeline status and sharing their IDPs increases engagement, retention, and developmental effort, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality about specific succession decisions.