Succession Planning and Management Putting PBs Knowledge to Work

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Transportation Changes and Workforce Development
David R. Gehr Mississippi Valley Conference
2007 July 10, 2007 Minneapolis, MN
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking
and planning Winston Churchill
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Issues

• Changing skill sets
• Availability
• Nature of the work
• Need for additional infrastructure

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21st Century Skills

• Declining need for less-skilled workers
• Strong reading, writing, math skills
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Develop after employment

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Availability

• Decreasing for several years
• Engineering enrollment decreasing since 1986
• Attraction of non-transportation fields
• Aging workforce
• Demand increasing

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Change in the Nature of Transportation Work

• Increase in alternative delivery systems
• Financing
• Consolidation in consultant industry
• Small firms specializing
• More intensive use of information technology
• U.S. population increase

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Workforce Development

• Change our view
• People are our most valuable asset
• Attract, develop and retain
• Succession planning and management

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Succession planning is a defined program that an
organization systemizes to ensure leadership
continuity for all key positions by developing
activities that will build personnel talent from
within
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Succession Planning and Management

• Focus on all key positions
• Assess present work requirements
• Assess future work requirements
• Competency model

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Competency Model

• What does it take to be successful?
• Knowledge, skills and abilities
• Other qualities and behaviors
• Technical, leadership and business
• Present and future

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• Skills
• Knowledge
• Experience

What employers see
What employers get

• Abilities
• Interests, Values, Motivations
• Traits

• Understand the organizations long-term goals and
  objectives
• Identify the workforces developmental needs
• Determine work force trends and predictions

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Leadership

• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Teamwork
• Performance Management
• Personal Effectiveness
• Values Diversity
• Community Involvement

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Business

• Serve the Customer
• Project Management
• Human Resource Management
• Business Acumen
• Strategic Planning

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Technical

• Technical Credibility

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The question of tomorrows management is, above
all, a concern of our society. Let me put it
bluntly we have reached a point where we simply
will not be able to tolerate as a country, as a
society, as a government, the danger that any one
of our major companies will decline or collapse
because it has not made adequate provisions for
management succession. Peter Drucker