Successor Coaching

Whether you are the Executive needing to identify and prepare your successor, or the future Executive preparing to take that next big role, Paragon has targeted solutions to ensure your success.

“Being a part of one of PARAGON’s offerings was a wonderful opportunity, not only for me, but also for my employer. It opened up doors for us both, in ways we never could have imagined.” Meredith Allard Director of Public Relations Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan

Will you be jumping into a “larger pool” soon . . . a pool filled with more demanding technical or strategic capabilities, expansive leadership responsibilities, or greater political and/or global expectations? Are you wanting to swim with the big fish but aren’t sure of the path to get there? Then Paragon’s Successor Coaching is for you. Paragon offers the following Successor Coaching Products/Services to assist the successor, predecessor, and organization in making a successful, efficient and cost effective transition. Future-focused role leadership assessments, including a Role Expectations Profile, identifying 2-3 roles beyond today’s predictable career path Career coaching to align motivational drivers with career direction Focused skill development Accelerated mentoring Feedback loops with key stakeholders In person coaching, blended with virtual just-in-time coaching “Sink or swim” doesn’t have to be the mantra for executive successors.

Successor Strategy Coaching

The Business Case:

•  Reduce the potential stagnation of key executives whose mobility is dependent upon effective preparation of successors.

•  Reduce the risk of hastily promoting individuals not suited or prepared to move into more complex, high stakes roles.

•  Increase transition success by ensuring the successor possesses the new role competencies and stakeholder support vs. relaying on assumptions that pas success will equal future success.

•  Mitigate the loss of talented team members who would not perform or be retained under ineffective new leadership.

•  Reduce the risk of losing high potential talent who perceive a lack of opportunity for upward mobility or lateral moves within an organization.

The Solution:

Paragon's Successor Strategy Coaching provides Executives with targeted support to identify and develop their top successor candidates.

Paragon partners with the Executive to:  define the complex requirements of the role; conduct a talent assessment to identify the most likely successor candidate(s); created individual development strategies for each candidate; and create knowledge transfer, feedback and communication strategies for the Executive.

Contact us to learn more about how Paragon can help ensure you not only swim but soar!