Build Bench Strength Around Critical Roles
Prioritize bench strength for truly critical roles instead of trying to plan succession for every title.
Bench strength is role-specific depth, not a vague sense that the company has good people. The mechanism is prioritization by vacancy damage and replaceability. If a role would create outsized operational, strategic, customer, or stakeholder risk when vacant, and external replacement would take a long time, that role deserves deeper successor coverage. Tracking everything equally usually leaves the truly critical roles with only single-name protection. Start with criticality, not completeness The mechanism is prioritization by vacancy damage and replaceability. If a role would create outsized operational, strategic, customer, or stakeholder risk when vacant, and external replacement would take a long…
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