5 Critical Steps from ‘Accidental’ Team Manager to Visionary Team Leader

Leadership is more about being than doing.

How does a Team Leader role get dumbed down to manager status overnight? By promoting an inexperienced nominee from the team. Someone who replicates management style rather than leadership.

Managing and leading are not the same.

Without succession coaching, companies risk making unqualified internal promotions to fill leadership vacancies. Lines get blurred as prior leadership advantage is replaced with something less.

The team expects seamless leadership from the ‘new brush but sees an accidental manager ‘acting up learning by doing’.

‘Accidental’ because the appointee is unlikely to have had prior training or familiarisation ready for team management, never mind leadership. The successor may not know the difference.

Imagine it is you. The ‘phone starts to clang and your inbox is exploding. You are now fully accountable and already dragged into the minutia of daily task management.

The larger the team the bigger the problem becomes.

How to begin?

Alan Dawson has coached countless new managers who started the same way. He says, “It is possible to remain unscathed as you gradually morph from team player through to management and leadership.

The key for aspiring leaders is to change ‘self’ before shaping up others”. In his high-impact, eye-opening keynote Alan provides a 5 step master transition, from ‘aspiring manager to visionary leader’.

He unfolds career-building actions to avoid early ‘own goals’ and safely earn the Brownie points of team buy-in on the way.

Discover Alan’s 90-day OPD plan, his HABE formula and how to fix the right mindset.

For the early weeks, he will say, “Keep your powder dry” in a robust period of unannounced observation only before you begin to:

      – Carefully assess the team against the right criteria and then evaluate them again. Why?

      – Establish the concept of leadership density, head off the rumour mill, and engage the early trustees.

      – Ensure the team is engaged before announcing radical changes or creating a vision for the future.

Resist mentally ‘going back’ to your old job!

Carry on forward and much, much more!