CONTENTS
Introduction: Master Your Next Move
Successful careers as a series of challenging transitions into new roles. Mapping the different types of transitions. Diagnosing your particular personal adaptive and organizational change challenges so you know what you are up against.
Understanding what “success” looks like at a higher level in the hierarchy. Adjusting your focus and approach to delegation. Developing new leadership competencies and cultivating “presence.”
2. The Leading-Former-Peers Challenge
Being promoted to manage people who were formerly your peers. Deftly establishing your authority in the new role. Reengineering existing relationships. Dealing with problematic former peers.
3. The Corporate Diplomacy Challenge
Moving from a position of authority to one in which strong influence skills are critical for getting things done. Mapping the influence landscape. Building supportive alliances.
Joining a new organization and adapting to a new culture. The pillars of effective onboarding. Building the right political “wiring.” Aligning expectations up, down, and sideways.
5. The International Move Challenge
Moving to a new country and leading people in an unfamiliar culture. Moving one’s family and rebuilding the support system. Preparing for entry. Beginning to engage with the team and the business.
Taking over an organization that is in deep trouble and figuring out how to save it from destruction. Diagnosing the situation, designing the business model, driving alignment, and dynamically adapting.
Confronting an organization that is in denial about the need for change. Creating a sense of urgency before problems simmering below the surface erupt in a crisis. Adjusting your leadership style to match the situation.
8. The STARS Portfolio Challenge
Leading an organization in which different parts are in different states: start-up, turnaround, accelerated growth, realignment, and sustaining success. Figuring out where to focus and how to build momentum.
Conclusion: Designing Companywide Transition-Acceleration Systems
Understanding the critical transitions taking place throughout companies. Building unified transition acceleration systems. Adjusting for types of transitions. Deploying through coaching, programs, and e-learning.