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An Invaluable Tool for Workforce Management

HRsmart's Career Development and Succession Planning Solution (CDSP) identifies and helps develop top performers in your organization.

Increase retention. Plan for the future.

Create career paths for employees giving them direction. Multiple Succession Plans allow you to plan for the future needs of your company. Recognize your bench strengths and areas that need attention. Groom and cultivate the high potential employees you have selected as potential successors.

Discover the impact of turnover in your company: are you losing high potential/performers or those you had already planned to transition out?


High-Level Summary

HRsmart's CDSP is a SaaS, interactive solution for developing employees, increasing employee retention, and planning for the future needs of the organization. Highly configurable, managers and employees can develop career paths together. Discover strengths and areas in need of development with a detailed gap analysis. Build development plans to help grow and develop employees.

Identify successors based not only on required skills, competencies and job experience but also on an employee's desire to hold the job. Advanced search tools facilitate finding hidden talent within the organization that may have otherwise been overlooked. After potential successors have been chosen, view the Domino List to determine the strength of your succession planning and uncover areas that may need further attention. Easily locate your top employees, those who may need development, and those you wish to transition out with the most configurable 9-Box on the market.

HRsmart worked hard to earn our business and followed through on their commitment to customize aspects of the program to our satisfaction before we went live. Crown

Features & Benefits

  • 9-Box: The most configurable on the market. Identify employees who are ready for advancement, need development, or should be transitioned out. Filter by location, job family, or division.
  • Multiple Career Paths: Create the next phase of an employee's career path.
  • Development Plans: Develop top talent by creating plans to assist in needed growth or filling gaps required for advancement.
  • Succession Planning: Plan for the future needs of your organization. Use advanced search tools to uncover the best fit for a future opening.
  • Gap Analysis: Quickly identify areas that need development and create a development plan or action item on a plan.
  • Domino List: Identify the strengths and areas requiring further work. Quickly see where gaps in the planning lay.
  • Assign Mentors: Take advantage of skilled, successful employees by leveraging their experience and knowledge by mentoring less experienced employees.

What Our CDSP can do for your Company

  • Leverage information gathered in career paths in your succession planning.
  • Identify top performers and further develop them.
  • Enhance manager-employee communication through interactive processes.
  • Understand what kind of employees are lost via attrition.
  • Development plans assist growth and fill gaps.
  • Detailed gap analysis provides a graphical view of strengths and weaknesses.
  • Unified platform enables use of content from Learning Management in development plans.

HRsmart's technology provides a deeper level by offering all solutions on the same platform with a single, unified database. Data and cross-module analytics are available immediately throughout the entire solution with updates made via a single screen.

How Does CDSP Work with HRsmart's Other Modules?

  • Create development plans to support learning. (Learning Management Solution)
  • Create development plans to support appraisals. Development plans can be created directly from an appraisal. (Employee Performance)
  • View 9-Box placement on Organization Chart. (Solution-wide Organization Chart)
  • View competencies developed in project teams to include in appraisals. (Employee Performance)