Succession matrix
Coverage planWho covers each position if the person holding it is not there — and where the gaps are.
Who covers what
Position, who holds it, who covers it, who covers that. Four columns, and the fifth is where you write what is missing.
It rates nobody
No readiness score, no potential rating, no performance rating, no grid. Nothing here could be used to rank a team or to justify a decision as though software had made it.
Around it
Positions you plan to have are the staffing plan. Who is away this week is the away calendar, and what people are trained on is the training matrix.
A cover plan. It produces no readiness score, no potential or performance rating and no ranking, and it reaches no conclusion about anybody's future. Everything runs on your device.
Questions people ask
- Where is the nine-box grid?
- There is none. A nine-box grid is a potential score and a performance score about named people, kept in a browser, and read later by people who were not in the conversation. This sheet answers who covers what.
- Is there a readiness score?
- No. No readiness figure, no rating, no ranking and no comparison between people anywhere in it. It is a cover plan, not an assessment.
- What is the gap column for?
- It is the reason to fill the sheet in. “Nobody else can run the BAS front end” is the line that gets training budget approved, and it is invisible until somebody writes it down.
- Does it plan anybody's career?
- No. It reaches no conclusion about anybody's future and records no ambition or potential. Those are conversations, and they belong in the one-to-one log if anywhere.