Registration

Succession Planning, Building Bench Strength & Talent Development: 
Keeping Your Team Game Ready (2-part)

Wednesdays, April 2 & 9, 2025

9:00 am to 12:00 pm CT  (both days)

Please Note: We request that each participant participate from his/her own computer, and use a webcam. This will allow you to participate in the breakout group discussions that are an important part of the learning experience.

Registration deadline is March 12^th

Missed the deadline? Click here to inquire if spots remain.

Fee:

RWHC Member & Affiliate Member
$200 per person

Non-RWHC Member
$240 per person

Fee includes program materials. 

0.6 CEUs

RWHC is approved as a provider of continuing health education by the Wisconsin Society for Healthcare Education and Training (WISHET). RWHC designates this activity for up to 6 contact hours (0.6 CEUs) of continuing education for allied health professionals.

Instructor:

Corrie Searles , MPT, Leadership Development Educator With her 20+ years of experience in leadership both in and out of healthcare, her past roles have included leadership for therapy teams in hospitals, long term care, outpatient, and home health, as well as Cardiac Rehab, Occupational Health, Fitness Centers, and Stress Testing. Corrie has extensive experience in continuous improvement methodology and a passion for leadership development training. She has a Master ’s in Physical Therapy, a Certificate in Organizational Leadership, and a Certificate in Customer Service & Leadership training with Achieve Global. She is certified to teach Crucial Conversations through Vital Smarts in addition to being a certified coach for Shift Positive 360.

Target Audience:

Healthcare supervisors and managers, both experienced and new in their role; healthcare leaders with direct reports who are also supervisors or managers

Program Description:

We talk about it constantly – retention. We know it’s important. The trick is planning ahead and knowing how to keep our star performers engaged and challenged and the services of our departments running. We get so busy in the day to day that we don’t take the time we know we should to think through how to invest in those we most would hate to lose from our organizations or how to build more bench strength for our services. We also know how vital it is to be thinking ahead and preparing our future leaders to fill the shoes of current leaders so there is less transition time from one to the next.

Join this workshop to explore a methodical approach for identifying our top performers and re-engaging them in their development. This workshop also sheds light on where we have weaknesses in our succession and bench strength efforts, offering a straight-forward approach to addressing the gaps that exist. It is highly interactive and uses numerous practical tools for guiding the effort from start to finish.

Participants will learn to:

1. Understand why succession planning is important
2. Practice the 9-Box Model of identifying top talent
3. Outline a succession and bench strength planning model
4. Detail practices to promote top talent retention

Consider taking this workshop if the following are mostly true for you:

• As a senior leader, you have concerns about gaps in potential successors for key roles within
  your organization.
• As a manager, you worry how you’d still serve the needs of others should one or two of your star performers choose to go elsewhere.
• You know you need to develop more bench strength in several areas of your facility’s or department’s services but you’re not sure where or how to start.
• You’d be in a world of hurt if some of your top talent would get drawn to another organization.
• You haven’t given a lot of thought to the idea of formal succession planning but you suspect you
  need to.
• You know succession planning is important but you could use a structure to help you begin
  the process.
• So far your strategy for succession planning has been based on crossed fingers and hoping for
  the best.