Succession Nominations: Feature Overview

Succession Nominations are an HR-only tool in Growth Studio for identifying critical roles and documenting potential successors. It helps HR build a clear picture of bench strength with structured workflows for nominating candidates, running approval flows, and tracking readiness over time.

In this article, you will learn...

• Key capabilities
• How Succession Nominations works
• Succesion Nomination access
• Readiness indicators

Key capabilities

• Critical role tagging: Tag roles across the organization as critical for succession planning
• Nomination workflows: Nominate internal or external candidates for critical roles
• Configurable approval flows: Define who reviews and approves succession nominations
• Readiness indicators: Track candidate readiness with directional indicators — Ready now, Ready soon, or Future
• Connected to performance data: Succession decisions are grounded in existing review and competency data
• Role coverage visibility: See which critical roles have successors identified and where gaps remain

How Succession Nominations works

Succession Nominations follows a simple workflow to help you plan and track successors for critical roles.

1. Tag critical roles - Identify and mark roles that are essential to your organization.

2. Nominate successors - Add internal (and, if applicable, external) candidates for each role.

3. Set readiness - Indicate how prepared each candidate is:

• Ready now
• Ready soon
• Future

4. Route for approval - Submit nominations to designated reviewers and track approval status.

5. Monitor coverage - View which roles have successors and identify any gaps or risks.

6. Keep plans updated - Regularly update nominations and readiness as your team grows and changes.

Succesion Nomination access

Succession Nominations is available to HR / Admin users only. Managers and employees do not have access to succession planning features.

Readiness indicators