The Future is Now

One of the biggest challenges any organization faces is preparing for the future and identifying the leaders of tomorrow. PRA's staff of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists has extensive experience defining the competencies needed for the future, assessing the current management team against those competencies, and helping them get there.

Succession planning is a multi-step process that begins with PRA working closely with an organization's leadership to determine its vision of the future and its leadership requirements. Once the leadership needs are established, PRA can then define the skills that will be needed to bring that vision to fruition. PRA's testing professionals specialize in not only large-scale testing programs but also individual assessment initiatives. Depending on the organization's needs, PRA designs a program to assess current managers and determine their strengths and weaknesses. Then, custom designed development programs to close the gap between skills these managers possess today and the skills required tomorrow can be designed and implemented. These development programs range from widely deployed training programs to individual multi-rater feedback and individual coaching programs.

Designing a program that identifies an organization's needs and fairly and accurately assesses talent is only one step in a complex process. Just as important is the implementation of the process developed. Without careful consideration to issues such as data management, confidentiality, and diversity, succession planning may not identify the best talent an organization can offer. PRA's staff has implemented many succession planning programs and can help you develop the record keeping procedures and databases to support a succession planning program, establish policies for sharing succession planning information, and look widely across your organization to identify talent.

If your organization needs assistance with any part of a succession planning program, let PRA's expert team design a program that ensures your organization has the talent it needs for the future.