5 Essential steps from ‘Accidental’ Team Manager to Visionary Team Leader

5 Essential Steps From Accidental Manager To Visionary Team Leader 

Succession coaching is essential to ensure first-time leader promotions work.

Sink or swim has no place in the process.

In a sales team, the tendency might be to slavishly appoint the most successful salesperson for a vacant leadership position.
The selection may be to maintain a good employee pressing for promotion. This sounds good, but being a valued salesperson or a top technician in a technical team is rarely sufficient qualification for a team leader's role.

Without coaching, it could backfire. Pinch points occur when the team naturally expect seamless leadership from a new brush but see an 'accidental manager' 'learning by doing'. Overt familiarity can mean a 'same-team' appointee struggles and quickly lapse back to type.

I have coached countless new team leaders who experienced succession coaching and safely navigate their first leadership appointment to excel in their new craft. The immediate challenge for a new appointee is to 'change self' before trying to shape up others. In a high-impact programme, I deliver a 5-step master-transition workshop from 'Aspiring Manager to Visionary Leader.' It includes team evaluation, avoiding early clangers , earning the buy-in and engagement of others and much more.

The first 90 days in the post are critical to survival.
Contact me to discuss succession planning for your aspiring leaders and coaching your first-time leaders.

Discovery calls to 07850 577 441 for more information.