HR & Payroll

Succession Planning for Small and Family Businesses

On-Demand
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    Speaker
    William J Rothwell. Ph.D., SPHR, CPLP Fellow
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    Date
    Nov 04, 2022
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    Time
    13:00 PM EST
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    Duration
    60 Min
$199.00
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Overview:

 

Talent management poses special challenges for small businesses and for family businesses. These special challenges can complicate the succession planning process in those settings.

 

But what is meant by the term talent management? How does talent management relate to succession planning? What precisely are the unique challenges faced by small business owners and family businesses in planning for, acquiring, developing, deploying, engaging, rewarding, promoting, retaining, and (sometimes) releasing talented workers, and how can the effects of those unique challenges be mitigated or overcome? What recent challenges are small and family business owners experiencing? This webinar addresses these questions.

 

Session Highlights:


·       How to conceptualize different viewpoints of talent

·       Examine specific ways that small and family businesses can attract talent

·       Look at ways that small and family businesses can retain talent

·       Review special ways to develop workers in small and family businesses

·       How to build a powerful organizational reputation that attracts and helps to retain workers

 

Benefits For Attending:

 

Who will lead your organization into the future? Have you created the systems to properly implement required succession transitions? Have you put the financial tools in place to fund the transition? Do you want a plan that connects with your personal and company core values? When do you include timely planning related to strategy and talent issues? What are the appropriate communication strategies for sharing your plan? What legal issues need consideration related to the strategy, financial, and people aspects of succession?

 

So, what is preventing you from starting this effort tomorrow? Small and family businesses are the bedrock of all businesses. More people are employed by small and family-owned businesses than by all multinational companies combined. Yet the research on small and family businesses is bleak: fewer than one-third of small business owners in the United States can afford to retire. Only 40% of small businesses have a workable disaster plan in case of the sudden death or disability of the owner, and only 42% of small businesses in the United States have a succession plan. Fewer than 11% of family-owned businesses make it to the third generation beyond the founder. Lack of succession planning is the second most common reason for small business failure.

 

Many organizations often wonder where to start and what to do. So, this webinar will present a comprehensive approach to guiding such efforts.

 

What Will You Learn:

 

The focus of this webinar is to learn the elements of effective succession planning & talent management for small business and family run businesses.

 

Who Should Attend:


·       All Employers

·       Business Owners

·       Company Leadership

·       HR Professionals

·       Training & Development Professionals

·       Organizational Development Professionals

·       Talent Development Professionals

·       Trainers

·       Administrators

·       Managers/Supervisors

 

Ask your question directly from our expert during the Q&A session following the live event.


William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is a Professor of Learning and Performance in the Workforce Education and Development program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. He is also President of his own consulting firms-Rothwell & Associates, Inc. and Rothwell & Associates, LLC. At Penn State University he heads up a top-ranked graduate program in organization development/change. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 300 books, book chapters, and articles-including 127 books in 7 languages. Before arriving at Penn State in 1993, he had nearly 20 years of work experience as a Training Director and HR professional in government and in a multinational business.

As a consultant he has worked with over 50 multinational corporations including Motorola, General Motors, Ford, and many others. He has traveled extensively and has visited China 83 times and Singapore 32 times-among many other international travels. He had 20 years of full-time work experience in HR in both government and business before becoming a professor 28 years ago.  In 1997 he and his wife founded a small business-a personal care home for the elderly that employed 27 workers. That company was sold in 2017.

His most recent books include Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships: Process Consultation Reimagined (CRC/Productivity Press, 2021); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Adult Learning Basics, 2nd ed. (ATD Press, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Resource Essentials for Small Business and Startups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020).

 

1.0  HRCI Credit Hours (Approved)

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