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How to Successfully Transition as a New Leader

LSA Global

Establish boundaries around your time, manage the talent on your team with clear and enforceable expectations, and hold yourself and team members accountable for doing what you say you will do. The Bottom Line Transitioning to manager is rarely easy. Maintain a Balance You quickly learn you can’t do it all.

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Common New Manager Challenges to Prepare For

LSA Global

Instead, identify the critical three to five scenarios and skills that will have the greatest impact on your new manager, their boss, and their team in a way that aligns with the organization’s strategic priorities and talent management plans. Then invest the time and resources to train, coach, and reinforce them.

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Remote Workers

Harvard Business

They talk through how to advance in your job when you’re not in the building, deal with a problematic colleague you never see, and manage teams in other offices. Download this podcast. They report that workplace politics are more pervasive and difficult, and when conflicts arise they have a harder time resolving them.”

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Top Learning and Development Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

You’d be surprised how many L&D practitioners cram communication, problem-solving, decision making, time management, delegation, work load management, goal setting, coaching, giving feedback, etc. into new manager training and overwhelm their newly promoted people managers.This is a mistake.

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Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Non-Technical Skills

LSA Global

While hard skills such as data mining rank consistently high, the greatest skill gaps are in the areas of leadership, communication, collaboration and time management. To learn more about building soft skills, download The #1 Reason Soft Skills Training Fails According to Executives.

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Why Career Conversations Are a Must for New Managers

LSA Global

And those managers who held career development conversations on a monthly basis had 43.7% Surprisingly, there’s not a distinct difference between having quarterly or annual career conversations, which suggests that — from a resource and time management perspective — it’s better to have annual conversations.

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Stop Mindlessly Going Through Your Work Day

Harvard Business

Think of this as turning on your own internal project manager. Make Time for the Work That Matters. To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Librar. Get clear on why you are in this particular job, what your trajectory looks like, and how you can apply your talents to support your career aspiration.

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