The ETO Advanced Diploma of Management is designed for staff that are destined for senior management roles in the future organisation. In essence, it is often about planning for succession.

Succession management plays an important role in the planning of all successful organisations. It becomes crucial when the organisation is facing the retirement of some of its experienced and effective leaders.

While most succession management systems are developmentally oriented, it is widely recognised that best practice succession is work-based development activity, involving underpinning skills coupled with job assignments and on the job action learning programs. This is usually supported by coaching and mentoring by senior managers, mostly on an informal basis.

The ETO approach to succession management – called “Leading the Future” – mirrors this process.