By Joanie White-Wagoner

It’s January 2020. Do you know what that means? It means succession planning. If you do nothing else this month, start your succession planning.  Succession planning is one of the most important parts of leadership development. Why? Because you are going to lose people this year. It is inevitable. The baby-boomer generation is retiring at alarming speeds and people are leaving for a variety of reasons, whether voluntarily, involuntarily, or in some dreadful cases, tragically.

Things happen; life happens.  And when they leave, all that intellectual capital leaves with them. Are you prepared?