How does HRMagix identify critical roles?

Through a key position vulnerability index and role criticality assessment.

What readiness ratings are used for successors?

Successors are rated Ready now, 1-2 years, or 3+ years.

Can I create development plans for successors?

Yes. Targeted individual development plans (IDPs) can be set for high-potential successors.

What is the goal of succession planning in HRMagix?

To identify critical single-point-of-failure roles and build internal leadership benches for future growth.

Can succession use performance data?

The KRA & 9-Box module plots performance against potential, helping spot the high-potential people who form a bench.

Which group does Succession belong to?

Succession is part of the People group of modules, with Onboarding and Documents.

Is succession planning focused on leadership roles?

Yes. It builds internal leadership candidate benches for critical roles, to support future growth.

What is a single-point-of-failure role?

A critical role the Succession module helps you identify, so an internal leadership bench can be built for it.

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Succession

Find roles that depend on one person and name likely successors for them.

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Core capabilities: 3
Module group: People
Related questions: 0
Modules on one record: 12

What it does

Succession, capability by capability

01
Key position vulnerability index and role criticality assessment
02
Talent bench readiness ratings (Ready now, 1-2 years, 3+ years)
03
Targeted individual development plans (IDPs) for high-potential successors

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Where succession sits in the app

People

The records and paperwork that sit behind every employee.

MemosCompany memos, kept in the People area.
DocumentsEmployee and company documents in one place.
AssetsCompany assets, searchable from the global search.
OnboardingBringing a new hire into the company.

Knowing who could step into each critical role

What succession planning is for

Every growing company has roles where one departure would stall a team or a client. Succession planning names those roles in advance and asks a plain question of each: who could take this on, and how soon. The module turns that question into a maintained record rather than a one-off exercise.

How it works in HRMagix

Key positions are assessed for criticality and given a vulnerability index, which shows where the company is most exposed. For each, you build a bench of internal candidates rated by readiness: ready now, in one to two years, or in three or more.

High-potential successors get individual development plans that set out what they need to be ready. The 9-box from the KRA module is a natural input when choosing them.

Who uses it

Leadership and HR identify critical roles and review the benches.
Managers nominate successors and support their development plans.
Successors work through their development plans.

What to decide when setting it up

What makes a role critical in your company.
How many successors you want named per critical role.
Whether candidates are told they are on a bench.
How often benches are reviewed.

FAQs

Succession: frequently asked questions

Through a key position vulnerability index and role criticality assessment.
Successors are rated Ready now, 1-2 years, or 3+ years.
Yes. Targeted individual development plans (IDPs) can be set for high-potential successors.
To identify critical single-point-of-failure roles and build internal leadership benches for future growth.
The KRA & 9-Box module plots performance against potential, helping spot the high-potential people who form a bench.
Succession is part of the People group of modules, with Onboarding and Documents.
Yes. It builds internal leadership candidate benches for critical roles, to support future growth.
A critical role the Succession module helps you identify, so an internal leadership bench can be built for it.

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How it works in HRMagix

High-potential successors get individual development plans that set out what they need to be ready. The 9-box from the KRA module is a natural input when choosing them.