Business Organizational Charting Software by Orgchartpro

Are you developing an organizational chart for your business? A well-defined organizational chart will give a great visual of your work force for your business and human resources planning. These charts are valued because they make lines of authority, accountability and responsibility clear. They also help find the talent, ‘fat’, and gaps in your organization if used in conjunction with a business planning process.

Especially in the current economy costs must be scrutinized and every employee must be adding value to the company goals. The organizational planning and charting process gives you the tools needed to analyze what’s really going on.

Lists of people and their responsibilities have a place in the planning and evaluation process, but lists (or tabular views) do not adequately communicate relationships, spans of control or functional gaps in the organization. When dealing with organizations that are heavily matrixed (i.e., people reporting to more than one manager) the visual becomes even more important.

OrgChart Pro is the ideal software to support your business organizational charting and management processes. It not only gives the chart view for visualizing the organization, but also presents the data behind the organization. You get both views in OrgChart Pro.

Try it free at www.orgchartpro.com.

Succession Planning Process

Succession planning is a process by which an organization ensures that employees are recruited and developed to fill each key role within the company.

Succession planning is not just about promotion paths to the top. It's about getting the right person in place for every job. If a firm plans to double in size in three years, they will need more talented managers and must plan accordingly.

This process of succession planning enables your organization to:

1. Assess if you have the right skills mix to achieve company goals – and determine what gaps exist that must be closed.
2. Identify talented employees and provide education to develop them for future higher level and broader responsibilities
3. Identify which employees are at risk of leaving.
4. Retain superior employees
5. Build “bench strength."
6. Determine where people belong on the bus.
7. Determine if they should be on your bus - or someone else’s.

If you want to effectively do succession planning in your organization, you must first identify your organization’s long term goals. In the process you will also need to understand the developmental needs and goals of your employees. Then you need to make sure that your key employees understand the roles, responsibilities, and career paths of the positions that they are being developed to fill. There needs to be a match. Also be mindful of the job employment trends in your industry and area so that you have a good appreciation for the roles that you may have a particularly difficult time filling externally.

To help everyone get a clear picture on the workforce a diagnostic organizational chart must be developed. Any organizational charting software tool that helps you visualize the organization and its personnel ‘hot spots’ will greatly help in a successful planning process. OrgChart Pro is organizational charting software that automates the organization mapping and visualization process.

Here is a Basic Succession Planning Organization Chart

One of the deliverables from the succession planning process is a diagnostic organization chart. Using OrgChart Pro and the succession planning process, here (below) is a basic chart showing positions that are filled, currently vacant, expected to be vacant, ready-now for promotion, and contractor. Additional fields may be added for length of time on the job, expected departure date, skill sets, etc. But this basic chart becomes an important visual to communicate the urgency for sound planning and taking action to protect your company’s greatest asset.

Your goal is to hire superior people that have the passion, character, capability and track record for the job. Good people that fit are tough to find, which makes the succession planning and hiring so critical.

OrgChart Pro provides the perfect visual ‘heat map’ to facilitate an effective succession planning process. Visit www.orgchartpro.com for details and a free trial.

Organizational Charting Software for Excel

Need to create an organizational chart for your company? While Excel and PowerPoint can be used they’re really made to do the job – hence it’s a slow and tedious process. OrgChart Pro is specifically designed for the complex job of drawing, formatting, and publishing organizational charts in a fraction of the time. Plus, the entire process of creating org charts can be automated. OrgChart Pro can easily import excel data to create the chart and then keep it up-to-date. OrgChart Pro makes chart formatting, data changes and personnel calculations quick and easy.

You can draw charts using drag and drop, or create your chart with a simple import from Excel.

Try OrgChart Pro for free and see how this org chart software solution can work for you. Details at www.orgchartpro.com