The New Leader’s Playbook on Executive On boarding

Thursday, Apr 09, 2015 01:00 PM EST, Duration: 60 min, Course Level: Intermediate

Webinar by George Bradt

Overview Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the result of mistakes made in the very beginning that can be devastating for organizations and leaders alike. This is why on boarding best practices is one of the most important crucibles of leadership. Learn how you can take charge, build or re-build your team, and deliver better results faster than anyone thought possible; and how you can coach others to do the same. To that end, this conversation focuses on how to leverage three ideas to get done in your first 100-days and/or help others get done in their first 100-days what would normally take six to twelve months. Speaker George Bradt will share insights and stories from his own business leadership and consulting experience, from his book, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan, and from what he’s learned from leaders for his 250+ weekly columns on Forbes.com, The New Leader’s Playbook. Why should you attend?

Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the result of mistakes made in the very beginning that can be devastating for organizations and leaders alike. This is why on boarding is one of the most important crucibles of leadership. Areas covered in the session This conversation focuses on how to leverage three ideas to get done in your first 100-days and/or help others get done in their first 100-days what would normally take six to twelve months: 1) Get a head start by managing all the stages of on boarding and from before the first contact well past day one. 2) Manage the message before, during and after day one.

3) Build the team, investing in building a high performing team:

Get buy in to the one burning IMPERATIVE

Use key MILESTONES to drive team performance.

Invest in EARLY WINS to build team confidence.

Get the right people in the right ROLES with the right support.

Shape the team culture with ongoing COMMUNICATION. Speaker George Bradt will share insights and stories from his own business leadership and consulting experience, from his book, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan, and from what he’s learned from leaders for his 250+ weekly columns on Forbes.com, The New Leader’s Playbook. Learning objectives Learn how you can take charge, build or re-build your team, and deliver better results faster than anyone thought possible; and how you can coach others to do the same. Who will benefit

Those moving into new leadership roles and those helping/coaching others moving into

new leadership roles.

Instructor profile

George Bradt has led the revolution in how people start new jobs. He

progressed through sales, marketing, and general management roles around

the world at companies including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D.

Power’s Power Information Network spin off as chief executive. Now he is a Principal of

CEO Connection and Chairman of Prime Genesis, the executive on boarding and

transition acceleration group he founded in 2002 to help new leaders and teams

accelerate transitions. Since then, George and his partners have reduced new leader

failure rates from 40% to 10% through a single-minded focus on helping them and teams

deliver better results faster over their first 100-days. A graduate of Harvard and Wharton

(MBA), George is co-author of five books on boarding, a weekly column on Forbes.com,

and five musical plays (book, lyrics and music).