Facilitating Leadership Transitions

Facilitating Leadership Transitions offers consultants and coaches the opportunity to enhance their capability to support others to “take charge,” and to successfully undertake new, and usually bigger, roles. “Taking charge” of a senior role is a time of extraordinary risk and opportunity for the leader and the organization. During these transitions, there is a limited window to seize the opportunity and make the required impact and there are proven methods that support success. In today’s organizations, where the pace of change and the demands on performance are ever increasing, enhancing this capability is an absolute necessity.

Using a combination of research presentation, reflection, and practice, participants will learn how to sharpen their ability to support transition, and how to provide bold and yet safe ways to broaden the range of useful behaviors.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Learn to recognize the four key stages of transition.
  
• Be able to identify the eight “tensions” active in transition and then balance these to best effect.
  
• Inquire skillfully into the experience of those in transition.
  
• Determine how to choose and recommend one of four essential management styles depending on the situation.
  
• Strategically plan transitions taking all these factors into account.
• Have an opportunity for extensive practice.

Participants

This program is designed for leaders in or approaching transition, as well as coaches, human resources professionals, and internal or external consultants with roles in supporting senior leader transitions.

Coaches - This program qualifies for International Coach Federation (ICF) Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) credits. Please see the Continuing Education page for full details.

Dates and Fees:

“I enjoyed the program tremendously, and it has enabled me to be more effective in my executive coaching work with clients. It was enlightening to learn about the internal tensions executives go through as they transition into new jobs. The facilitators were excellent as they shared their research findings with obvious conviction as to how to put this knowledge to practice. Practitioners themselves, they were clearly experts and yet demonstrated openness to differing views. I liked very much the tools they brought to the program and the generosity with which these were shared. It
was a great learning experience enhanced by the tranquil GISC environment.”

Joseph Tay, Executive Coach
Singapore