Leadership in Transition
Twenty years of assessing networks and individual performance in more than 300 organizations has shown that initiating, engaging, and refining personal networks in targeted ways is critical to successful role transition. Our most recent research revealed specific strategies of people…
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TMG Personal Onboarding
From the executive coaching firm The Miles Group, lots of valuable advice in a short video on the importance on managing your own leadership onboarding and how to schedule a full year of key milestones and activities. Tips include taking…
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5 Tips for Starting a New Job – Be Proactive & Strategic!
More from TMG onboarding: Five tips for starting a new job by being proactive and strategic. The five tips include what to include in your strategic onboarding plan, set distinctive career goals at the start, being proactive in handling your…
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Leadership Transition Worksheet
A worksheet presented at past CEMBA leadership classes identifying 17 transition challenges in six dimensions of an onboarding plan: your job fit, managing the boss, connecting with peers, managing early team encounters, analyzing the work, dealing with other stakeholders. A…
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New Leaders Needs More Than Onboarding
HBR article from Michael Watkins, the guru of job transitions. He argues that organizations are doing a poor job assimilating new hires and provides startling data on the mismatch between seven stumbling blocks of new leaders and what companies actually…
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Sample New Leader 360
About six months into a new role turns out to be a good time to assess your progress and perception in the new role. Here is a simple 10 item survey that covered many of the essential areas leaders need…
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getAbstract collection
getAbstract provides a set of book summaries aimed directly at the transitioning leader. Review these summaries and then buying a few of the books to build a personal onboarding library: Leadership Passages – Dotlich Leadership Transitions – Eisner The New…
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