Succession Assessments

Choose the Best Leaders for Tomorrow's Demands

Are your leaders ready to handle the challenges and requirements at the next level? Do you have backups for key positions across your organization you’re confident have the skills they need? Your organization depends on having effective leaders today who can transition into tomorrow’s roles—successfully, purposefully and seamlessly.

PDI’s Succession Assessments Use Custom Simulations to Predict Real-Life Performance

Wouldn’t it be helpful if you had the luxury of putting a succession candidate in a role to let him or her try it out first? That’s what PDI’s Succession Assessments do. Your leaders will be immersed in real-life business simulations customized and/or built specifically to match the leadership and business challenges they will face at the next level and to reflect the needs of your organization.

Many assessments do not differentiate the changing competencies required for changing leadership roles. Ours do. We offer customizable assessments at all levels of the leadership pipeline.

PDI’s Succession Assessments:

  • Include a business scenario based on a fictitious organization, with a suite of live-person and online business simulations, an in-depth interview, and several standardized tests and work style inventories. 
  • Match the critical features of your company and industry. 
  • Address the challenges and responsibilities your leaders will face at the next level. 
  • Measure the competencies and success factors that matter for these roles. 
  • Provide the right balance of assessment and development. 
  • Are an engaging and challenging development experience for leaders. 

Each assessment includes rich, same-day feedback and development coaching. Leaders gain insight into how they stack up against requirements and receive concrete, focused suggestions on how to accelerate readiness and manage the transition. They also receive post-assessment  support to ensure development progress.

For the company, the assessment offers valuable information to enhance talent management decisions.  You’ll discover:

  • Which leaders have potential for advancement and how far they can advance 
  • How close leaders are to being ready for the next level 
  • Where the gaps are and what experiences, assignments, and activities would best help leaders develop new skills and accelerate readiness 
  • What the risks are that could derail them 
  • Whether they should be promoted or placed into an immediate opening, and if they’ll be a good fit for the position 
  • What roles on the succession chart they are best suited for 

At a group level, you’ll also be able to find out:

  • How your leaders stack up against others at similar levels based on PDI’s global database of over 10,000 leaders.
  • Where the critical gaps are in your succession chart. 
  • Where your business is potentially vulnerable or at risk because of talent constraints. 
  • Whether your leaders are optimally deployed across your business groups, functions, and geographies 

Make confident succession decisions with PDI's Succession Assessments. In-depth data. Better decisions. Focused development. Impact and results.