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Committee decisions

Succession decisions your committee can stand behind

Put a nomination forward and let your committee vote — weighted or blind, under your quorum and deadline — with every reason kept on the record. The no is kept as carefully as the yes.

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A nomination's decision panel: three of five seats have approved, and the panel names the two seats it is still waiting for.

A weighted vote that closes the moment it is settled

Five seats with different weights and a quorum of three. With the committee set to close once the result can no longer change, this is how a decision ends.

  1. 1The nomination is put forward. Who may vote is fixed now, and nobody has answered yet.
  2. 2The Finance Director approves: 2 of 10.
  3. 3The HR Director approves: 4 of 10.
  4. 4The Sales Director approves. The quorum is met, but the 5 points still to vote could tie it — so the decision stays open.
  5. 5The CEO approves: 8 of 10, and the 2 points left cannot change it. The decision closes, and the Operations Director is recorded as not voting.

A decision says how it was reached

The outcome, the committee's reasoning, every seat's vote and its weight — and, when the result was settled early, which seats did not vote. Approvals and rejections are both kept with their reasons.

  • Weighted voting, or a blind panel whose votes stay sealed until it has answered
  • A quorum, a deadline, and a rule for when a decision closes
  • The vote that decides has to give the committee's reason
A closed decision: approved by the committee and closed as soon as the result could no longer change, with two seats recorded as not voting.

Your committee, your rules

Name the seats and weigh them, set the quorum and the deadline, and decide what happens when someone is too close to a nomination: refuse, disclose or recuse. Every change is a new version, and decisions keep the rules they were taken under.

  • Seats are roles; who fills them is set separately
  • Conflict-of-interest rules that refuse, disclose or recuse
  • Versioned, so last year's decision stays explicable
The succession policy's committee tab: a weighted committee with named seats and their weights.

Visibility follows the person

What you may do and whom you may do it to are separate questions, and the product asks both. A plan marked confidential stays with the people allowed to read every plan.

  • Line managers see the nominations they wrote
  • Confidential plans are kept from everyone else
  • A plan you may not see answers “not found”, not “not allowed”

What it will not do

It never lets anyone decide a vote by changing who sits in the room.

The committee for a nomination is fixed when the nomination is put forward. Seating someone new afterwards, or barring a seat, cannot settle a decision — only votes can.

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Succession Committee Decisions | Succession Impact