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Learn moreMake a smooth transition and excel in your 1st-time leadership role
Everything 1st is scary, and leadership isn’t an exception. Taking a new leadership role isn’t an easy task. Reports show that many new supervisors, managers, and executives either quit or get fired or resign. They give up mainly because of 1st Timer Syndrome, whose symptoms include anxiety, confusion, frustration, displacement, stress, and uncertainty that follow when one takes a new leadership role.
The syndrome hurts first-timers’ health, the well-being and performance of their teams, and ultimately the success of the larger organization. To tackle these challenges, some organizations intentionally and proactively empower their new leaders to make a smooth transition and thrive beyond first-time leadership pitfalls by providing a comprehensive support system well beyond the conventional onboarding process.
Unlike those which throw their new leaders into the deep water and see if they swim or sink, these few smart organizations create transition programs for their new leaders to overcome 1st timer syndrome. As a result, such first-timers develop confidence right away, balance work-life, lead their team effectively, get along with key stakeholders, and deliver quick results from the start.
This presentation explains why the syndrome occurs; how to overcome it quickly; the mindset, skill-set, and character-set first-timers should develop immediately. It also suggests how senior leaders and HR departments should support 1st timers to make a smooth transition and excel in their first-time leadership roles.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants will:
- Understand why 1st timer syndrome occurs and its impacts at individual and organizational levels.
- Makeshift in mindset, develop the necessary competencies, and build the right personality from the get-go to overcome 1st timer syndrome quickly.
- Appreciate the significance of going beyond the conventional onboarding approach to fully support and empower new leaders to make a smooth transition and excel in their new leadership roles.
- Get latest insights, workable models/frameworks, practical approaches, strategies, and tactics to overcome the syndrome (if they’re 1st timers) or create support system and transition programs for their new supervisors, managers, and executives to succeed at their new leadership roles.
Additional presentations
Below are also additional organizational development keynote speeches for your next event that may interest you. Of course, we’ll customize each by working with you closely. Click on the titles to learn the description and learning objectives for each presentation:
1. Effective performance-driven feedback
In this presentation, participants will learn the three types of feedback; where they are relevant to use; how to give effective feedback that delivers results; and how to create a pro feedback culture.
2. Take advantage of setting and clarifying expectations immediately
This presentation emphasizes the importance of setting and clarifying expectations with key stakeholders from the get-go to start one’s new leadership role on the right foot.
3. Transform your culture, transform your organization
The presentation explains the power of corporate culture, the benefits of having a unique and robust culture, how to create, sustain, and ultimately leverage your corporate culture to succeed and thrive in this highly competitive century, and how to align key stakeholders, products, and services of your organization alongside the shared values.
4. Creating an inclusive workplace that wins
The presentation shows participants the difference between just bringing diverse people to the table, and achieving inclusion by mixing the diverse people at the table well.
5. Benefiting from project management principles that worked for megaprojects
The speech then inspires your key stakeholders who sponsor, manage, and support your projects to apply those project management principles that worked for successful mega projects to enjoy remarkable results.
6. Balancing tactical with strategic thinking for sustainable success
This presentation inspires participants to employ strategic thinking in everything they do to add value toward the big picture and greater good, and long-term goals.
7. Managing priority and time for souring productivity
The speech shows the impacts of mismanaging priorities and how that leads to an unproductive workforce, missed deadlines, wasted resources, poor quality products and services, damaged relationships, multiple crises, and more.
How does it work?Frequently requested
Below are the 3 frequently requested Organizational Development presentations.
Reform your onboarding process
This presentation shares three tips to reform your onboarding process to equip your new supervisors, managers, and executives, whether you promoted them from within or hired them from outside, to overcome first-timer syndrome. These are: a) Give more info to these new leaders than you give to new team members, b) Arrange a workshop to help them make a quick transition and excel at their new positions, and c) Enroll them into a long-term leadership development program.
Schedule for a 1 on 1 callCreating a pro feedback culture
This presentation suggested three things you could do to create a pro feedback culture to enjoy continuous performance improvement: a) Get the buy-in of your team, b) Create uniformity, and c) Lead by example.
Schedule for a 1 on 1 callTransfer your culture, transform your organization
This presentation emphasizes the importance of creating and nurturing a unique culture and to empower leaders at various levels of the organization to understand the power of culture and play their respective roles to contribute toward the creation and maintenance of the corporate culture.
Schedule for a 1 on 1 callHow does it work?
1. Identify one of the topics you're interested in for your upcoming event
2. If in case you don't see the exact topic you're looking for your next event, no worries, we will work with you to design from scratch
3. Once you identify the topic that aligns with your upcoming event, schedule for a 1 on 1 call
4. We will work with you one on one to customize each presentation to:
- Meet your needs,
- Resonate with the audience,
- Align with your culture and preference.
- We don’t stop there. If you would like to have follow-up programs to keep the learning momentum going, we have other services such as coaching (individual or group), and programs (Stand-alone full-day or half-day workshops/webinars or cohort programs that may last for weeks, and even months).
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