Unlock potential, develop your leaders today, and be prepared for the future.

A strong organization is measured not only by its current achievements but also by its ability to place the right talent in the right positions for future critical roles and maximize employees’ development potential. The Succession and Career Development module helps prevent strategic roles from remaining vacant while enabling employees to enhance their competencies, reach career goals, and realize their leadership potential.

Finding, developing, and retaining critical talent requires an integrated, data-driven, and development-focused approach. The Succession and Career Development module brings the entire process together on a single digital platform-from identifying high-potential employees to planning career paths, from succession strategies to implementing development plans. This way, organizations gain not only strong leaders and critical talent today but also sustainable success for the future.

Succession Planning and Leadership Development

Talent Information

You can personalize your talent strategies by tracking employees’ attributes for critical roles, such as “Loss Impact,” “Loss Risk,” “Criticality Information,” and “Future Leader.” Critical talents and high-risk positions can be monitored in real time, allowing you to take swift action.

Succession Organization Chart

You can view your entire organizational structure in a clear, hierarchical layout. Track each position’s current employee, assigned successors, and vacant roles at a glance. For empty or high-risk positions, you can quickly add or update successor candidates directly on the chart and revise your plans instantly. This provides a proactive, visual, and effective planning experience for future appointments and leadership transitions.

Talent Pools

With Talent Pools, you can track high-potential employees or potential candidates for critical roles as a group. You can create development plans for employees, identify future leaders, and define successors for general job roles.

Talent Search

You can search employee data in depth using details such as education background, work experience, performance, and competency scores. This tool not only helps you identify successor candidates but also strongly supports building project teams, filling positions, and planning your talent pools.

Succession Lineage Chart

You can view the succession chain of a critical position at a glance. When a successor from the selected position is assigned to another role, you can track the successors who will step in and the individuals who will replace them, step by step. This allows you to see in advance how a single move in the succession chain will progress across the organization, identify potential gaps or risks early, and manage leadership transitions smoothly, quickly, and in a planned manner.

Performance-Potential Matrix

You can use matrix reports that evaluate employees along two dimensions: performance and potential. Integrated with performance management and goals, these reports allow you to easily identify high-potential employees with low performance or, conversely, high performers with lower potential.

Career Development Planning

  • •With the Development Goal Plan , you can create personal goals, develop competencies, and manage plans.
  • •The Career Worksheet helps employees explore career paths, assess their readiness, and address gaps with targeted career development plans.
  • •With Career Explorer , you can discover the most suitable career opportunities using AI-powered recommendations.
  • •Through Mentoring, , you can automatically match employee mentors and mentees, providing a simple yet powerful way to accelerate employee development.

Integrated Processes

Learning Integration
Employees can link training activities defined in the SAP SuccessFactors Learning module to their development goals and track their progress.

Performance Management Integration
Development goals can be viewed and managed within performance evaluation forms.

Reporting and Analytics

You can track succession and career development processes through comprehensive reports. Detailed reports on vacant positions, successor candidates, and development plans help support strategic decisions, measure the effectiveness of mentoring programs, and optimize processes.