Charlie Martin is an experienced executive coach and leadership development facilitator. He is a Certified Executive Leadership Coach and focuses on Executive Development, Leadership Development, Workforce Contribution Management, Workforce Engagement, Individual and Organizational Change and Developing High Performance Cultures. Charlie is Founder and Head Coach at Think Change www.thinkchange.co and a member of the coaching and leadership development team at Virtual CEO Consulting www.virtualceo.com He is an experienced senior executive with over 35 years of successful experience leading, coaching and developing teams to achieve results through employee groups as large as 8,000, dispersed globally, to a few located locally. He has held CEO, COO, Sr. VP, and VP positions in a variety of functions and industries He holds an MA and BS from the University of Central Missouri, is certified as an Executive Leadership coach by Georgetown University (2002) and is certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF) He is the author of “From OK to Excellence, 7 Steps to a productive and engaged workforce” and is a Trained Facilitator of “Immunity to Change”
Website: http://www.thinkchange.co
A key question to ask related to succession planning is, why are you doing it? Another question might be, what do you want the successors to be prepared to do? These two questions fit well together and if they are both not answered with the best thinking you can muster, your succession planning effort could be just checking another box in your organizational life.
Leadership development and the application of what is learned is critical to the success of any organization and is critically important to a service organization.