{"id":1546,"date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsweb.wpengine.com\/publications\/building-the-leadership-bench-developing-a-talent-pipeline-for-the-ses\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T04:19:02","slug":"building-the-leadership-bench-developing-a-talent-pipeline-for-the-ses","status":"publish","type":"pps_publication","link":"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/publications\/building-the-leadership-bench-developing-a-talent-pipeline-for-the-ses\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Leadership Bench: Developing a Talent Pipeline for the SES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the next five years, nearly two-thirds of the Senior Executive Service (SES)&mdash;the elite cadre of civil servants who hold the top managerial and policy positions in government&mdash;will be retirement eligible. 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Are agency leaders identifying and developing aspiring executives?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is what the Partnership for Public Service and McKinsey &amp; Company set out to understand in the report, &#8220;Building the Leadership Bench: Developing a Talent Pipeline for the SES.&#8221; The report includes four phases of a cohesive SES pipeline-development strategy and case studies of agencies who excel in their execution of one or more of these phases.<\/p>\n<p>Related inforgraphic:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/publicservice\/9347331214\/\" title=\"SES Statistics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2889\/9347331214_69a6f827f5_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"155\" alt=\"SES Statistics\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1547,"template":"","tags":[],"pps_publication_types":[67],"pps_publication_topics":[11950],"pps_publication_tags":[11963],"pps_year":[],"pps_agency":[],"pps_region":[],"pps_success_types":[],"class_list":["post-1546","pps_publication","type-pps_publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pps_publication_types-research-and-publications","pps_publication_topics-leadership-and-collaboration","pps_publication_tags-senior-executive-service"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Building the Leadership Bench: Developing a Talent Pipeline for the SES &#8226; Partnership for Public Service<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the next five years, nearly two-thirds of the Senior Executive Service (SES)&mdash;the elite cadre of civil servants who hold the top managerial and policy positions in government&mdash;will be retirement eligible. 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