Well how do you like that? The British Commonwealth countries have now decided it is okay to break tradition and make new laws that allow succession plans to transfer females, even if they have a little brother. More detail here . Yes, royalty have a different world to live by, but I have heard some pretty lame excuses for corporations to keep old outdated methods and traditions when it comes to their employee processes. And they are not all just related to succession planning. I thought I would create a list of the some of the really stupid decisions or policies that we see. If you don’t want your co-workers, peers or executives to roll their eyes and scoff at your ancient processes, get rid of these 7 succession policies NOW!

Awful Policy 1: Only Allowing Planners to Select Successors from the chain of command under a position
Successors should be the best candidates for the role regardless of the current department or position they hold in a company.

Awful Policy 2: Heralding super-flat organizations as a nirvana of efficiency.
Communication, goal setting, career paths and many other issues are often crippled by the huge gap between levels in a flat organization.

Awful Policy 3: Allowing performance review scores to be weighted as high as 80% of criteria for placement as successor

Continue reading "7 Awful Succession Planning Policies," here 
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