Archive of posts - Best Practices

Leadership transitions often expose gaps that weren’t visible before like unclear ownership, outdated plans, or roles no one was ready to step into. This guide covers the core succession planning best practices that help organizations avoid those moments, along with common mistakes to watch for, how practices differ by role and organization size, and what to focus on as succession planning evolves over time.

A data-linked org chart connects reporting lines with employee and role records. Keeping those records together helps HR review team structure, vacancies, and proposed changes. This guide explains how to prepare the data, build a chart, and maintain it as the organization changes.

An organization chart is a graphical representation of relationships between an organization’s departments, functions, and people. It can also indicate the flow of data, responsibility, and reporting from bottom-up or top-down. Its usage across the globe is a testament to its effectiveness. Below are some rules for drawing organizational charts and org chart best practices to make your organization chart more meaningful and useful.

This is the third post in a series on organization structures. Here is a brief outline of what has been discussed so far: In the first post we discussed the simple, functional and the multidivisional organizational structures. The second post followed up with the Holding company structure, Matrix Structure & Team-based structures. Now with the final post in the series, let’s take a look at the Project-based and Network structures.