Your next move : the leader's guide to navigating major career transitions /

Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Your Next Move 1

Successful careers as a series of challenging transitions into new roles.

Mapping the critical categories of career moves.

Meeting the personal adaptive challenge and the organizational-change challenge.
1. The Promotion Challenge 19

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 45

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 67

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.
4. The Onboarding Challenge 87

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 115

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.
6. The Turnaround Challenge 137

Taking over an organization that is in very deep trouble and figuring out how to save it from destruction.

Diagnosing the situation, designing the business model, driving alignment, and dynamically adapting.
7. The Realignment Challenge 159

Confronting an organization that is in denial about the need for change.

Creating a sense of urgency before emerging problems erupt in a crisis.

Adjusting your leadership style to match the situation.
8. The STARS Portfolio Challenge 179

Leading an organization in which different parts are in different STARS states鈥攕tart-up, turnaround, accelerated growth, realignment, and sustaining success.

Figuring out where to focus and how to build momentum.
Conclusion: Designing Companywide Transition-Acceleration Systems 197

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.
Notes 207
Index 211
About the Author 219