From Onboarding to Accelerated Integration: Harnessing New Leaders’ Potential More Rapidly

Onboarding is an apt term for how many companies support new leaders’ transitions, because—like helping someone onto a ship—there’s not much more to the process than bringing the executive safely on deck.

Accelerated Integration reduces the time it takes for new leaders to deliver impact in their roles

Senior roles are more challenging than ever. Globalization, along with repeated waves of mergers and acquisitions,has created business behemoths that span multiple time zones, markets and cultures.

CEOs need to understand the “cliff effect” in their new organization—before they fall off the edge

The conventional wisdom says that a new leader has 90 daysto prove that he or she was the right choice for the job.While that 90-day period is indeed critical, I believe the conventional wisdom has it slightly wrong.

Time is a critical asset for new leaders. Spending it poorly in the first 90 days can have dire consequences

Starting as a newly appointed leader in an organization is akin to getting hit by a tsunami. Meetings, presentations, crises: all requiring time and energy from the new executive. The “tribe” will show patience and tolerance—up to a point.

Impressions that new CEOs make in the first 90 days are magnified and multiplied

For leaders, the transition to a new role can be one of the most challenging times in their professional lives. What newly appointed leaders need to keep in mind