Transforming Leadership Transitions
Jumpstart Success in the First 3-6 Months of Your New Role
——Teleconference Series
Today, the more you advance in level of responsibility, the smaller the window may be to make the impact you want to make in a new leadership role. The very early days of a new leadership responsibility present critical opportunities and challenges. How you set the tone and utilize this time creates the platform for what you are able to accomplish in the long-term. What you overlook and don't see can sidetrack your best intentions, in spite of your track record. How do you expand your ability to recognize issues, challenges and opportunities?
Attend a highly interactive teleclass designed to support you in planning for predictable—and unpredicable—challenges, to make the most of your new opportunity.
In this four-session program, you will:
- Leverage the talent of a group of seasoned strategic thinking partners
- Study common pitfalls of job transitions and how to overcome them
- Create a comprehensive plan for success
Learn to:
- Identify andengage the audiences essential to your success more effectively and quickly
- Use predicable challenges to expand possibility
- Manage key polarities or tensions inherent in a new role
- Expand your ability to leverage the system
- Make the most of your newness in the role to:
- Ask the questions that no one else is asking
- Take a fresh look at the status quo
- Set a new tone
- Build a reputation that accelerates what you want to accomplish
Four-session program includes:
- Four one-hour structured, highly interactive teleconferences
- Guidance and support for creating your own planfor each critical transition zone
- Acceptance – start date
- Start – week 3
- Week 3 – Week 8
- Week 9 – Week 12
- Handouts
- One (individual) 60-minute executive coaching session
Course fee:
- $395 (to insure quality, enrollment is limited to 12)
Recommended for:
- Executives and leaders in transition, planning a transition, or launching a new initiative
- Recent hires
- Internal coaches
Presented by:
Elizabeth Olson, Executive Coach, Preferred Futures
Jackie Sloane, Executive Coach, Sloane Communications
Elizabeth Olson, MSOD, partners with clients to effectively manage transitions and build productive teams. In working with clients, Elizabeth encourages strategic thinking as well as emotional intelligence to enhance ledership effectiveness and achieve true partnerships between people. Client results include finding or rediscovering passion in their work, navigating successful career transitions transforming relationships, exceeding goals, as well as impressive increases in profitabillity, sales, and people engagement.
Elizabeth has led her own business for over 20 years focused on leadership development andcoaching, team alignment, organization effectiveness and strategic planning Working with leaders in Fortune 50, mid-size, and start-up companies, as well as non-profit organiations, Elizabeth helps clients clarify theis vision and mission and achieve results collaboratively. After working internally in financial services andat a non-profit, Elizabeth founded Preferred Futures consultancy. Through that firm and her relationship with Karlin Sloan & Co., she has consulted to most industry segments including 3M, McDonald's, CIGNA, Lifespan, Right Management, United Way, Wm. Wrigley Jr., and Yahoo! Elizabeth teachesleadership courses at The Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, offers seminars in the U.S. and Europe, and has presented to national audiences.
Jackie Sloane works with leaders to achieve significant results and greater well-being through how they engage others, navigate challenges, communicate, and cultivate relationships. Her clients have reported greater influence and satisfaction at work, increased sales, dramatic reductions in production time, achieving desired results in challenging conversations, promotions and leaps in compensation.
Jackie has over 25 years experience in executive coaching, marketing consulting and journalism. She has served leaders at privately-held, non-profit and Fortune 500 firms in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, professional services, retail, pharmaceutical, andconsumer products. As a marketingconsultant, shespecializes in positioning, creating programs that have resulted in nationalvisibility, increasedsales, key contracts, favorable offers of acquisition andotherbusiness results. She has served clients from Abbott, Accenture, Deloitte, Digitas, hollister, Navistar, Plante and Moran, Washington Mutual, andmany other organizations. Jackie writes the Executive Coach column for Executive Travel, a blog on leadership and communication, and has presented at numerous industry and corporate events on leadership, personal positioning and communication. Jackie holds a Master Certified Coach designation from the International Coach Federation.
Recommended texts:
- To support your learning, you are invited to read either or both of these books, although they are not required.
- The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
- You're in Charge, Now What? by Thomas Neff and James Citrin
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. —Shunryu Suzuki
