Product: Leadership Transitions
Climbing the career ladder may be the riskiest move your managers will make. Help ensure their transitions are successful ones.
Leadership Transitions is an online performance support resource specifically designed to help your managers navigate a unique and precarious point in their careers. Including a wide array of assessment and planning tools designed in collaboration with Michael Watkins, one of today's foremost experts in leadership transitions, this resource will help your managers master their new roles faster and with greater success-saving your company valuable time and boosting productivity gains across the board.
Immediate Impact
Online tools and personal action plans help new leaders quickly produce measurable, positive results.
Practical, Proven Concepts
Detailed guidance shows how to recognise pitfalls, absorb information quickly, recognise opportunities, establish productive relationships, build momentum, and form strong teams.
Personal and Engaging
Thoughtful design encourages immersion with self-assessment tools, video clips, animated stories from the field, tailored advice, and simple navigation.
Exclusive Video
Tips and insights directly from Michael Watkins, author of 'The First 90 Days.'
The systematic approach provides applicable tools, tips and resources to specifically address the most common typed of transitions. The content is organised by sections:
Get Started
A topic overview, case study from the field, quick assessment activity, and module outline.
Learn
The main concepts within the module, plus Michael Watkins videos and tips on successful transition.
Apply
Downloadable forms, checklists and other guides to use on the job, plus a reflection tool.
Plan
Helps leaders map their transitions as well as track progress and accomplishments.
Resources
Nine online articles from Harvard Business are included along with recommended related books and articles to deepen understanding of the transition phase.
A Priority Assessment
Helps users prioritise content modules based on their own management experience and familiarity with their new roles.
Personal Action Plans
Helps leaders apply concepts to their jobs, manage their transitions successfully, and track their achievements and milestones.
Comprehensive Tests and Facilitation Guides
Available to extend and reinforce learning through collaborative discussion.
Skills for Navigating Through Leadership Change
Leadership Transitions equips new leaders to be effective right away in their new roles. Each module offers proven practices and thought-provoking ideas for a successful transition.
| Preparing For A Successful Transition | Recognising common transition traps to avoid derailment. |
| Accelerating Your Learning | How to absorb information efficiently to speed up the transition process. |
| Diagnosing Your Situation | Identifying the type of transition to understand the challenges and opportunities ahead. |
| Prioritising To Succeed | To build momentum for both short- and long-term success. |
| Working With Your New Boss | Tips on creating a productive relationship. |
| Achieving Alignment | How to coordinate strategy, structure and culture to meet ultimate objectives. |
| Building Your Team | Guidance on how to assess team members and processes to build a strong foundation. |
| Creating Partnerships | Strategies to establish internal and external coalitions to support initiatives. |
Leadership Transitions is based on the bestseller, The First 90 Days, by Michael Watkins, leadership and transitions expert and co-founder of Genesis Advisers, a consulting firm that develops transition systems for Fortune 500 clients. A recognised expert in the field, Mr. Watkins has held faculty positions with Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

