What can be done to enable successful transitions into and out of leadership roles? How do leaders promoted into senior roles step up and take charge? How do senior executives manage their transitions out? And when people join the organization, how
do you enable them to arrive well, survive the early weeks and quickly thrive in their new role?
The demands of this economy require a level of alertness and adaptability which stretches the attention of most leaders, making it difficult to be purposeful about transition. Yet the pace and scale of change in many sectors is asking managers not only to bring specialist, functional skills to a new leadership role, but also a new range of change skills: those of being able to transition effectively and successfully in shorter and shorter periods of time. This applies also to the selection and leadership of new teams, where the transition demands become more complex and demanding.
Based on her extensive research, Bridget Farrands, co-author of Lost in Transition: How Business Leaders Can Successfully Take Charge in New Roles, describes the individual and team issues that typically are faced by leaders in new positions. In this seminar, she will work with participants on the capabilities that support successful transitions, as well as the organizational dynamics that greet new leaders. How do new leaders get their ‘feet under the desk’ so that they are alert to the organization’s needs and their own leadership impact?
The seminar will also address the organizational and personal dilemmas that outgoing executive leaders wrestle with through a transition. These include embracing a legacy while purposefully making space for new leadership, and the experience of greater personal freedom along with diminished power and authority.
This is a hands-on, practical workshop: using a range of cases, tools, frameworks and personal experience, participants will apply the capabilities of transition to their own individual and organizational settings. They will leave with a better understanding of how transitions can be used as a period of rewarding personal learning, as well as how leaders can enable new arrivals in their teams/ organization to arrive, survive and thrive.
Benefits
Participants will:
- Learn to recognize the three key stages of transition
- Be able to recognize the eight key “tensions” active in
transition and then balance these to best effect
- Determine how to choose one of four essential management
styles, depending on the situation
- Strategically plan transitions taking all of these into account
- Have extensive opportunity for practice
Participants
This program is designed primarily for leaders in or approaching transition, but will also accommodate a limited number of consultants with roles in supporting senior leader transitions. |
