Training

Succession planning training at WYDOT

By Amy Bale, Training Services

In the past couple of years, WYDOT, like all state agencies, has seen a significant increase in position vacancies. While it’s always a challenge to fill positions in state government, finding people to fill the vacant positions isn’t the only problem. What does a program, department, or agency use to replace the lost knowledge, skills and experience? Succession planning is the most familiar and used solution. But how do you start?

Training Services decided to find out if there was interest in learning more about the topic. We started with a quick “pulsecheck” survey to more than 400 supervisors. We had about a 30% response rate where almost half our respondents expressed interest in attending a webinar on it. We scheduled a webinar Aug. 10-11, and based on the feedback from evaluations, the class was well received.

Then, we decided to take it a step further. We scheduled a follow-up session with the instructor, which would allow the participants to review their succession planning action plan and get additional feedback and guidance.

That session was held on Sept. 13, and the discussion involved not only the succession planning process, but ways to support existing staff and develop habits to help their departments work more efficiently. One participant commented that the additional time with the instructor was very beneficial, and they liked that there were additional resource suggestions from the discussion regarding developing habits and managing change.

Have you considered succession planning in your section or program? Do you want to learn more about it? The recordings of the “Succession Planning” class can be found on the Training Services intranet page, under the Supervisor Resource Page.

Want to know more about developing habits and managing change? Below are a few additional resources suggested by the instructor (which can also be found on readitfor.me/wyoming): “The Power of Habit” – by Charles Duhigg “Atomic Habits” – by James Clear “Switch” – by Chip Heath and Dan Heath n Training@aGlance Check out these upcoming training opportunities from WYDOT-U, the Transportation Learning Network (TLN) and the WELL.

Training@aGlance

Check out these upcoming training opportunities from WYDOT-U, the Transportation Learning Network (TLN) and the WELL.

Coming in November: Date Development Stage Class Description Class Hours Location

11/3/2022 Leading Self Myers Briggs (MBTI) & Communication

11/9/2022 Leading Others How to Develop and Exceptional Team

8:30 am-4:30 pm Rock Springs 8:30 am-4:30 pm Cheyenne 11/14/2022 New Employee One to One Training: Google and WELL (Know WY*) 8:30 am-11:30 am VILT *All new employees are assigned the Know WY Learning Plan and should register for one of these Know WY workshops in the WELL

Coming in December and January 2023: Date Development Stage Class Description Class Hours Location

12/19/2022 New Employee Google and WELL Training

1/17/2023 New Employee 1/24/2023 Leading Self Google and WELL Training Myers Briggs (MBTI) and Teams 8:30 am-11:30 am Various 8:30 am-11:30 am Various 8:30 am-4:30 pm Cheyenne