Are you a leader who is new to your role? Have you moved into a new organization or into a position with different and broader responsibilities? Are you already in the succession pipeline for a role change?

Patricia Wheeler, an expert on Senior Executive Transitions has has been cited in Forbes, Harvard Business Online and Talent Management for her work helping executives in transition.

For the first time, she is offering a course positioned for leaders transitioning into new senior roles to address the following challenges:

• What factors will lead to your underperformance in a new senior leader role?
• What skills must you adopt and build to accelerate your success?
• How can you gain and maintain traction in a different culture and/or team?
• What must you communicate to your new team to accelerate their learning curve?
• How can you quickly build effective relationships with new stakeholder groups?
• What must you do to continue sustaining your success over time?

Patricia is also able to deliver a customized Executive Transition program onsite to your organization.

This Executive Transitions TeleClass will cover the following points:

How to assess your organization and your new position

The power of perception: What you need to know about yourself to gain quick traction

Stakeholder mapping: practices that drive transition success

Forming strategic partnerships across the organization

Action planning: creating sustainable change and peak performance

Who should attend?
Executives promoted within their organization
Executives entering new organizations
Leaders taking on bigger/more global roles

Why this class?
Dr. Patricia Wheeler has been working with leaders taking on new roles for over 15 years as a consultant and executive coach. As leader of the Transitions Survey Team in the research partnership between the Institute of Executive Development and the global coaching alliance Alexcel, she knows what makes leaders successful….and what can derail them. She is Managing Partner of The Levin Group (www. TheLevinGroup.com), a leadership consultancy that helps smart executives become more effective leaders.

Her partnership with renowned coach Marshall Goldsmith in the executive resource Leading News (www.LeadingNews.org) has provided the world with great learning in the area of leadership development and talent management. She is the author of "Making Successful Transitions: A New Challenge for Leaders" in the 2009 AMA Handbook of Leadership.

Given the current climate of change, the need for quick results and the high number of talented people who do not succeed in their new roles, can you afford NOT to pay attention to the need to accelerate the transition into your new role?

Investment: $500 for six, 60-minute calls (introductory price). Classes will be recorded in the event that a leader is unable to personally attend a session. Participants may also access a 30 minute non-recorded Q and A / Coaching forum after each class. And registrants can join the class and pay once… and continue to attend the class for any subsequent offerings at no additional cost.

The Executive Transitions TeleClass will meet twice monthly, beginning Monday February 15 at 9 AM Pacific/ noon Eastern time.