CEO On-Boarding
Our CEO On-Boarding process helps seasoned, newly placed CEOs overcome the subtle, yet avoidable, leadership and psychological traps that get in the way of the success that the new executive desires and the board demands.
The Problem—New Executive, New Organization
Over the last 20 years, O’Brien Group’s work in C-level transitions has shown that a CEO’s “newness” to an organization temporarily slows progress and impacts performance in an otherwise capable organization. Because these transition leadership skills are seldom used long-term over the course of an executive’s career, they are typically underdeveloped in even the most successful executive. And as a result, good executives fail. They fail themselves and they fail their organizations.
The Solution
O’Brien Group’s On-Boarding Coaching helps CEOs start their new job more quickly, confidently and with a clear focus on achievement. We help the executive avoid the difficult-to-notice change leadership and psychological traps that unknowingly slow the executive’s and the organization’s path to high performance.
Our coaching process is customized to the personality and experience level of each CEO and is facilitated by former senior executives or business psychologists. We come right alongside the executive in the same way a professional athletic coach works with his or her best athlete – helping the leader before, during and after the “game”. Coaching toward new ways of thinking and performing.
Why do Seasoned Executives Need Coaching?
Expectations continue to grow for new CEOs to make a difference within the first few months. In the past, CEOs could take a year or more to turn an organization around. Now they need to take action more quickly. Chief Executives find that it’s often hard to get to the root of performance issues when key staff members disagree and direct reports are positioning to look good.
O’Brien Group’s on-boarding process helps CEOs make better decisions faster while gaining the trust, respect and credibility of all key stakeholders. Executives will learn how to:
- Lead and sustain change that accelerates the business
- Avoid cultural and political landmines
- Declare leadership expectations
- Lead high-performance executive work sessions
- Have difficult conversations about performance issues
O’Brien Group’s evidence-based approach helps seasoned executives to quickly become “part” of the organization, while, at the same time, making the critical decisions and implementing the transformational changes that they were hired to make.
Contact us to learn more about CEO On-Boarding.
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