{"id":517,"date":"2017-03-16T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:34:05","slug":"podcast-episode-6-succession-planning-is-more-than-replacing-an-individual-its-about-knowledge-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 6: Succession Planning is More Than Replacing an Individual; It&#8217;s About Knowledge Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Welcome to Episode 6 of the Working with SMEs Podcast.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In today\u2019s conversation with co-host Nathan Eckel, we discuss the challenges of succession planning. Succession planning is more than just grooming the right person and getting out of the way, but it\u2019s about making sure new leaders have all the information they need to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Nathan reminds us, \u201cThe first job of a leader is to define reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">A great leader must embody qualities like vision and the ability to inspire, but he or she also needs the right information to be able to accurately define reality and make good decisions. A strong learning organization has all that information available and usable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w5SlyvsxhrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">An organization is a living, breathing organism. Everybody\u2019s contribution makes the organization work, and that is why knowledge capture and transfer is at the heart of success. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">As your key people retire, are you capturing what you need to know for business continuity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">(Warning:\u00a0Peggy tells a joke in this episode.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Episode 6 of the Working with SMEs Podcast.\u00a0 In today\u2019s conversation with co-host Nathan Eckel, we discuss the challenges of succession planning. Succession planning is more than just grooming the right person and getting out of the way, but it\u2019s about making sure new leaders have all the information they need to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithsmes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}