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

Succession coaching is essential to make first-time leader promotions risk-free and successful.

Please don’t conveniently fill a vacant team leadership post with a top-performing player from the same team without due preparation. Likeability and current job success are inadequate guarantees for a successful first leadership appointment.

Sink or swim has no place in the process.

The selection may be to avoid losing a good employee pressing for promotion. Sounds good but being a valued salesperson or top technician is rarely sufficient qualification for a team leader’s role.

Without coaching, it could backfire. Pinch points occur when the team naturally expects seamless leadership from a new brush but sees an ‘accidental manager’ acting up and ‘learning by doing’. Overt familiarity can mean ‘same-team’ appointees struggle and lapse back to type.

I have coached countless new team leaders who experienced succession coaching and safely navigated their first leadership appointment to excel in their new craft.

The immediate challenge for any new appointee is to ‘change self’ before trying to shape up others. In this high-impact workshop, my 5-step master-transition workshop, from ‘Aspiring manager to visionary leader,’ includes team evaluation, avoiding early own goals, earning the buy-in of others along the way and much more.

The first 90 days 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 are free.