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more difficult part of the list. If they succeed, you have assessed and
developed people to be your back ups—and possible successors—in
a very practical way.
Along the way you will also need to manage individual expec-
tations. Make clear how they should handle their current job duties
while learning yours. It is advisable to hand off the person’s duties to
someone else if possible—and that is a chance to develop someone
for those duties, assuming you have sufficient staff to do so.
Grooming Approach 4: A Rotational Challenge
Job rotations are well-known approaches to exposing individuals to
other parts of the organization. It is also a way to test promising peo-
ple in other venues as well as to ...