Career and Succession Planning
Automate identifying successors for companywide roles, assessing bench strength and ensuring talent management and development
What it does
Set your workforce up for long-term success
Don’t let your organization get blindsided by turnover or gaps in your workforce. Our succession planning tool operates in Paycom’s truly single database, allowing for real-time employee data to help you easily close leadership gaps and proactively approach the future of your business with accurate, clear visibility into key positions and employee readiness. It’s all part of an ideal automated talent management experience with Performance Management, Compensation Budgeting, Certification Management and Paycom Learning tools.
What it does
Set your workforce up for long-term success
Protect business continuity
Identify the roles that matter most with clear organization and management. Since this tool exists in the same single database as all of your HCM tech, employee, learning and performance data flows instantly and seamlessly across Paycom, making it simple to align succession planning with how your business truly operates.
Prime your successor bench
Keep your leadership pipeline strong and consistent. Easily adjust readiness statuses based on real-time performance and development data as employees upskill, gain experience, meet performance targets and advance through your organization.
Lean on data, not hunches
Minimize the risk in succession planning. Our software’s 9-box is an interactive and collaborative grid that organizes talent on a spectrum of potential and performance to inform conversation about succession and development planning. Our tool automatically places employees on a 9-box grid based on performance data to give you a line of sight into your company’s ideal successors.
Catalyze internal talent pools
Don’t let turnover disrupt your organization. With the ability to mark key positions and successors, assess talent side by side and manage readiness timelines, our succession planning tool helps HR and executive leadership guide your organization through transitions to make the most of the employees you already have and ensure you’re never left guessing who’s next in line.
Full-solution automation
Simplify succession in a single software
Full-solution automation
Simplify succession in a single software
With data from Paycom’s Performance Management, this tool automatically places employees on a 9-box grid for at-a-glance workforce visualization. Plus, easily build a talent development program for potential leaders based on autopopulated performance review scores and Paycom Learning training history. Gauge program effectiveness with Paycom Surveys.
In this way, Career and Succession Planning provides actionable insights and intuitive reporting to help you better inform talent development strategy and executive succession planning — all with no data reentry.
Why Paycom
Because we put your future first
Our succession planning tool operates in Paycom’s truly single database, so you can easily and quickly:
- find and vet internal talent
- identify key positions
- view complete talent profiles
- designate future role successors
- align performance with potential
- manage successor readiness timelines
- compare talent compentencies side by side
- build and adapt your workforce development strategy
Why Paycom
Because we put your future first
How it’s different
Built for succession success
Effective leadership demands foresight. Our succession planning tool ensures you have the right data at the right time to provide a truly proactive approach to leadership continuity.
Intuitive talent comparison
The ideal candidate isn’t always top of mind. Keep tabs on your most exceptional talent with comprehensive, side-by-side comparisons, so you can easily and efficiently identify a role’s ideal successor.
Simplified succession reporting
Compliance reporting shouldn’t require an extensive skill set. Our succession planning tool allows you to export successor data, key positions, readiness levels, 9-box talent mapping, visualizations and more with ease.
Unmatched security
Succession shouldn’t be taken lightly, and neither should the security surrounding it. With permission-based access to career and succession planning data, sensitive info is only accessible to authorized users. Plus, you can easily assign view-only permissions.
Award-winning HR and payroll innovation
Who we help
Lead with confidence
Forward-thinking talent management starts with your HR leaders and people managers. Here’s how our succession planning tool supports every level of your organization’s leadership.
HR leaders
With seamless, employee-first data, our succession planning tool helps HR formalize succession to reduce bias and other compliance risks.
People managers
Give your supervisors an advantage in developing their team with real-time data tied to skills, roles, performance and leadership potential.
Executives
Empower your C-suite with valuable peace of mind in leadership continuity with a succession plan backed by reliable, always-accurate data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about career and succession planning software
Succession planning software helps organizations identify key positions, name potential successors and track readiness over time. It gives HR and leaders a clear view of bench strength for proactive leadership transitions. Modern succession planning tools also connect employee data — like performance and development — to keep plans accurate as organizations change.
Succession planning starts by identifying key positions critical to business continuity. From there, leaders and HR can evaluate internal talent using performance history, potential indicators and role-based requirements to identify and compare potential successors. This helps ensure consistent, data-driven and forward-thinking successor decisions.
A 9-box grid visually evaluates employees based on performance and potential. In succession planning, it helps leaders identify high-potential employees, assess readiness and guide performance calibration. This shared framework creates more objective talent reviews and supports clearer development and succession decisions.
Bench strength refers to the depth and readiness of internal talent to step into key roles when needed. Strong bench strength reduces business risk, strengthens leadership continuity and supports long-term growth. By tracking bench strength, organizations can identify gaps early and invest in development before transitions occur.
With Paycom, succession data updates automatically as employee information changes. Because succession planning draws from existing workforce and talent data, insights stay current without manual updates or reentry. This ensures leaders always have an accurate view of successor readiness and bench strength.
Access to career and succession planning information is permission-based. Organizations control who can view or manage this data, allowing sensitive information to be shared appropriately with HR, leaders or managers while maintaining confidentiality.
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