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    Succession planning and talent review deck template

    A talent review deck presents a leadership population to a board or executive committee: a 9-box grid placing people by performance and potential, a succession slate for each critical role with ready-now, ready-in-one-to-two-years and longer-term successors, and a profile of each successor. The placements and readiness ratings come from the calibration meeting; the deck lays them out. This PowerPoint template holds the grid, the slates and the profiles in the company's brand, and Formatix fills the profiles from CVs or HR records.

    Talent reviews are decided in a calibration meeting and then rebuilt into slides by someone in HR the week after. The grid, the slates and the profiles are the same shape every cycle; only the placements change. This template keeps the shape so the deck is a fill, not a rebuild.

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    Create your free account and we read your website for your logo, colours and fonts, then open the Succession and talent review in your brand, ready to change or save. Every other template follows in your brand too.

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    An editable file with neutral branding and a fictional example candidate, to fill in by hand. Formatix fills it automatically from a CV.

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    Succession and talent review template, slide 1: example in Formatix branding with fictional content
    Succession and talent review, first slide or sheet. Shown in Formatix branding with fictional example content; yours is built in your brand.

    What's in the template

    A talent-review deck with a 9-box grid of performance and potential, and a successor slate for each critical role.

    • 9-box grid of performance and potential
    • Readiness shown for each person on the grid
    • Calibration note
    • Successor slate for each critical role: ready now, in 1-2 years, in 3+ years
    • Bench strength summary with the gaps

    What it's for: CHROs and talent teams preparing a talent review or nominations committee.

    PowerPointDelivered as an editable PowerPoint file, or saved as PDF.

    Who uses it

    • CHROs and heads of talent

      The board or ExCo talent review pack, produced once a year or once a quarter in the same format.

    • HR business partners

      Divisional reviews that roll up into the group pack without reformatting.

    • Search firms with succession practices

      Client succession reviews delivered in the client's brand, not the firm's.

    Every slide of the example

    The example is in Formatix branding with fictional content. When you pick this template, it is rebuilt with your logo, colours and fonts before you use it.

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    How you use it

    1. 1

      Pick the template

      Open Formatix, choose this template in Studio, and give us your website. We pull your logo, colours and fonts and rebuild the template in your brand. You see a sample before you use it.

    2. 2

      Drop a CV or your notes

      Upload the candidate's CV, in any layout or language. For reports that carry your ratings or notes, add them alongside the CV. One credit fills one document.

    3. 3

      Check and send

      The filled document appears beside the original for checking. Edit anything in place, then download the Word, PowerPoint or Excel file, or save it as PDF.

    Download or automate? The free download is a plain file you fill in by hand. In Formatix the template is rebuilt in your brand, with your logo, colours and fonts taken from your website, and filled from a CV or your notes in about a minute. What you keep is the finished document: an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel file.

    Ask for changes in plain words, such as "move the photo to the right" or "add a Languages section", and the template is updated with the rest of its formatting kept. If you already have a document you send clients, upload that instead and Formatix turns it into a template. How Studio builds templates

    Questions about this template

    What is in a talent review deck?
    A summary of the population reviewed; a 9-box grid of performance against potential; a succession slate per critical role with readiness; a profile slide per successor with career, strengths, development areas and the actions agreed; and a risks slide for roles with no ready successor. This template has each of those slides.
    Who decides the 9-box placements?
    The calibration meeting. Formatix places people on the grid where you tell it to; it never rates or ranks anyone.
    Can the profiles be filled from HR data?
    Yes, from CVs, internal profiles or a spreadsheet export. Each successor's career and education are extracted and laid into the profile slide; strengths, development areas and readiness are entered by the reviewer.
    Is the output editable?
    Yes. It is a normal PowerPoint file. Move people on the grid, reword a development plan or add a slide in PowerPoint before the meeting.
    Can I download this template?
    Yes. A free, editable PowerPoint version with neutral branding and a fictional example candidate is on this page, to fill in by hand. To have it rebuilt in your brand and filled automatically from a CV, use it in Formatix; what you keep is an editable PowerPoint file.

    Use the succession and talent review in your brand

    Give us your website, and the template is rebuilt with your logo, colours and fonts. Your first ten documents are free, with no card, valid for 14 days.

    Formatix fills it from the CV for you: see our CV formatting software, or bulk CV formatting for a whole shortlist at once.