This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

The person you were planning to promote next year accepts an offer from a competitor, and there is no one ready to take their place. Here are 97 tools to prevent that: 69 ready-to-use question lists, templates, checklists, procedures and matrices, 23 models and methods, 1 service shown on screen and 4 working files.

Open a lecture, take the map, start with your three most critical roles.

Why leadership talent leaves

Critical roles are not identified, so retention efforts go everywhere and nowhere. Potential is confused with current performance, promotions are promised instead of prepared, and succession plans are lists of names without development or evidence. When a key leader leaves, the gap is filled in a hurry.

What changes after this course

You know which leadership roles matter most and what each person in them needs. Retention actions have owners and dates, competencies are mapped to future needs, and successors develop through real assignments with readiness evidence. The A-player sections show the same story from the employee's side.

A note on the structure

The course opens with four practical lessons, each with a working file and a fictional example. The following sections on A-player self-management, collaboration, career growth and motivation give the employee perspective.

What is inside: 97 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 19 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 4 working files: the Leadership Retention Priority Map, the Leadership Retention Action Plan, the Leadership Competency Map and the Skills-Based Succession Plan
• 69 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 20 question lists and scripts: retention priority verification, talent discovery, Gallup Q12, dream job reflection
• 19 templates and sample documents: leadership retention priorities, leadership retention action plan, skills-based succession plan, individual development plan
• 12 checklists: compensation evidence, retention action follow-through, talent identification criteria, micromanagement diagnosis
• 11 step-by-step procedures and workflows: skills-based succession planning, knowledge transfer, GROW coaching, career development planning
• 6 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: succession readiness, leadership style assessment, career level competencies, career option evaluation
• 1 other working tool
• 23 models and methods explained with examples: CliftonStrengths strengths assessment, 360-degree feedback, dual career ladder, Motivation 3.0
• 1 service shown on screen: Trello

Where the tools are

• Leadership retention and succession (4 sections, 20 tools). Critical roles, retention priorities, the retention plan, competency mapping and successor readiness.
• The A-player perspective (5 sections, 78 tools). High potential, self-management, managing up, teamwork, career growth, work habits, motivation and communication.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

At Wargaming the head of Publishing told his ten managers that each of them needed a deputy: when they went on vacation, he had to be able to solve any question with that person, and they had a year to choose, prepare and practise one. At Alfa-Bank some departments had the same rule, so every manager had a backup.

How to use the course

Start with the four practical lessons and fill in the working files for your critical roles, then use the A-player sections with your high potentials. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 16 lectures across 9 sections, 10 hours
• 19 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and four working files
• 97 tools across the lessons
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

List the three leadership roles your business could least afford to lose and the person who could step in tomorrow. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.