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The Talent & Succession Stress Test

Find out whether your bench could run the business without you.

Before you begin · participant briefing

How to complete The Talent & Succession Stress Test

Make 15 demanding people decisions about leadership continuity, readiness, delegation, and retention. Choose how you would develop strong leaders, raise performance, and protect results without lowering expectations.

About 22 minutes 15 decisions4 scored dimensions

What is expected

  1. 1For each scenario, select the first action you would take with your current authority, talent, and time constraints. Consider both immediate continuity and longer-term development.
  2. 2For forced rankings, use the arrows to order all four investments or retention levers, placing the one you would act on first at the top.
  3. 3For risk-prioritization rounds, put the bench weakness requiring the earliest executive intervention first.
  4. 4For sequencing rounds, arrange all four steps from first through last to show how you would develop a successor or manage an unexpected departure.
  5. 5Complete all 15 decisions. You may go back to reconsider a response; progress is saved in this browser.
  6. 6At the end, review your readiness map and provide your details to unlock the full outbrief, decision rationales, 30/60/90-day plan, and debrief option.

Complete every section to receive your scorecard, ranked priorities, 30/60/90-day plan, discussion prompts, and debrief option.