The Key to Success: 

Fast and  Effective Integration​

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​If you are you a leader getting ready to step into a new company or,  perhaps, new role at an existing company?   If so, then you have some big challenges ahead of you.   Here's just a few that you will need to consider:Assessing the new team;
  1. Quickly establishing credibility with subordinates, peers, and stakeholders;
  2. Understanding the culture (both macro and micro level – i.e. organizational culture as well as department/function culture – also noting culture during the predecessor’s leadership);
  3. Understanding how to navigate the board and major stakeholders 
  4. Identifying the landmines, expectations, and early wins.
We have a three-step Integration Plan  that includes developing a working knowledge of Conversational Intelligence.

Our process (which includes coaching) supports the new leader's transition                 
  1. Turn an already strong and/or aspiring corporate leader into a truly stand-out performer;
  2. Identify the risks, challenges, expectations, organizational behavior/culture that comes with the new job/role; unearth the landmines;
  3. Develop critical people skills, self-awareness and perspective needed for the new role;
  4. Knowledge, new understanding and perspective through assessments, leadership development tools and recent research in the areas of organizational change, conversational intelligence, and neuroscience (as needed and/or requested),
  5. An action plan that supports the executive in:
  • effectively transitioning into his/her new role within 90 days,
  • reducing ramp-up time by quickly understanding roles and expectations from peers, direct reports and stakeholders,
  • identifying early wins and quickly demonstrating value,
  • establishing the team and identifying alliances,
  • identifying and addressing problem areas (people, process, organizational issues),
  • moving ahead successfully after the coaching engagement has ended.
 
Rather than feeling pressured into making quick decisions,
Lou Gerstner took the first three months or so to simply learn about what IBM did.
​"Who Says Elephants
​Can't Dance"
 It takes 20 ​years to build a reputation and five
​minutes to ruin it.  
​If you think about
that, you’ll ​do  things differently. 
Warren Buffett,
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
We have seen a strong demand for senior leadership with new thinking in the new world order.
Richard Stein, Options Group