The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and the included downloadable forms, has proven itself to be a valuable resource for new leaders in any organization. This revision includes 40% new material and updates -- including new and updated downloadable forms -- with new chapters on: * A new chapter on POSITIONING yourself for a leadership role * A new chapter on what to do AFTER THE FIRST 100 DAYS * A new chapter on getting PROMOTED FROM WITHIN and what to do then

The New Leader's 100-day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

Business & Money

Bradt, George B.

Check, Jayme A.

Pedraza, Jorge E.

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive—FAST "Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed quickly and efficiently. This book guides you through a process that enables you to recruit, orient, and enable your new employees to get the job done. Learn how to inspire and encourage your new employees to deliver better results faster. George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut’s Onboarding helps ensure that your new employees are productive and efficient from day one. You’ll learn how to help them assimilate into your corporate culture and accelerate their learning. <ul>
<li>Onboarding is one of the hottest trends in business</li> <li>This is the first book about onboarding</li> <li>George Bradt is a leading speaker and consultant, and the author of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
</li> </ul>
For business leaders and managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the best from your new employees.

Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time

Vonnegut, Mary

wiley

Help New &amp; Recently HIred Employees Hit the Ground Running 
"The Total Onboarding Program is a comprehensive, step by step, guide to successfully integrating new hires into an organization. For the first time, there is a road map for those who help new leaders develop their own road maps during the onboarding process. Any organization that wants to increase its return on human capital needs to utilize the specific best practices so clearly described in this invaluable new resource." -- Ben Dattner, adjunct professor of Organizational Psychology, New York University and founding principal of Dattner Consulting, LLC The Total Onboarding Program provides training and HR professionals with a detailed approach for bringing new and recently promoted employees up to speed and productive in half the usual time. In this Facilitator's Guide set, George Bradt -- author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan -- and Ed Bancroft share a complete training package of proven tools, techniques, and tricks of the trade that help organizations reduce hiring or promoting risk and increase retention rates, identify and avoid the most prevalent landmines that derail new hires, and develop an onboarding framework that can be consistently deployed in any organization. Based on years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, the authors? techniques will inspire and enable new employees to deliver better results faster. Their program presents the core concepts of onboarding -- alignment, acquisition, accommodation, assimilation, and acceleration ? and includes agendas, worksheets, and slides for five meetings and 11 workshops, ranging in time from two hours to two days, so you are completely prepared to present the program to teammates.

The Total Onboarding Program: An Integrated Approach to Recruiting, Hiring, and Accelerating Talent Facilitators Guide Set

Bancroft, Ed

Human Resources

Pfeiffer

The authoritative updated and revised action plan for leaders entering new roles Your first 100 days in a new leadership role are critical to the success of your mission, your relationship with your new team, and your career. Turnover is high among new leaders who "didn't work out" and the costs to them and their organizations are dramatic. The solution is for every new leader to have an "onboarding" plan. This updated and revised third edition of the bestseller The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan delivers expert guidance to prepare executives for their new leadership roles, accelerate their results, and reduce turnover. With new chapters and sample action plans, the third edition: <ul>
<li>Helps you assess the internal political culture you'll be facing</li> <li>Explains why your new job doesn't start on "Day 1" but on the day you accept the offer--and how to use the valuable time before "Day 1"</li> <li>Explains the "BRAVE" approach to motivating your new team members by understanding their Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, and Environment</li> <li>Includes downloadable forms to help you plan</li> <li>Provides advice for your bosses—so they'll know how to help you succeed</li> </ul>
The third edition also includes a new 100-Hour Action Plan for crisis situations, which has been adopted by the American Red Cross. The new edition also explains how to use social media and other communication tools to reach and motivate your stakeholders. Discover the right approach for your new role and engage your new colleagues by fully understanding the unwritten rules of the new context. The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan helps deliver better results faster.

First-time leaders get motivational and planning tools from top executive coaching firmsThe First-Time Leader provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster. Leading is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Authors George Bradt, Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, and Gillian Davis, Leadership Coach, show how to achieve these results through the BRAVE acronym: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. Learn the three stages of team development, and get advice for specific leadership situations including onboarding yourself, onboarding others, and crisis management. <ul>
<li>Offers a way of thinking about leadership and a structure for action to help first-time leaders lead at both overall conceptual and tactical levels</li>
<li>Includes downloadable tools that are easily adaptable for each leader's specific context</li>
<li>Contains illustrative examples and stories from a range of experienced leaders and experts to help guide first-time leaders through things they may not have experienced themselves</li>
</ul>
The First-Time Leader shows new leaders what to do next, later, never, why, and how. It's an indispensible guide for stepping up and inspiring others to come together for success.

First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team

Davis, Gillian

Business Culture

Entering a new leadership role? Leading a reorganization or integrating teams? 
Get better results faster by building and implementing your 100-Day Action Plan 
Your first 100 days in a new leadership position are critical, as they set the foundation for your team's success going forward. The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan helps you start gaining traction even before your first day in a new job. The playbook gives you a concrete strategy for getting a fast start―engaging the culture, setting direction, aligning the team, avoiding common missteps, and delivering results. This new fourth edition has been updated with new graphics and downloadable tools, and expanded with new information learned from real-world clients over the past twelve years. 
Many organizations, regardless of size, industry, or geography, realize that it is strategically imperative to effectively onboard leaders into new roles and combine teams during M&amp;A and reorganization. New thinking for new teams provides ways to get quick results with key business initiatives, and new discussions on cultural fit and evolution to help you better contribute to your organization's success. Updated stories and case studies provide real-life glimpses at how successful leaders navigate tricky situations, and extensive online tools point you toward additional resources as the need arises. 
40 percent of new leaders fail within the first eighteen months on the job. When a new leader drops the ball, it's at the expense of the team, the organization, and the leader's track record. Successful leaders start leading and delivering immediately. This book shows you how to start getting results right away and dramatically increase your chances for success―by systematically shaping your leadership with intent. 
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<li>Take control from the start</li> <li>Expect the surprises and avoid the mistakes</li> <li>Manage your message and shape culture</li> <li>Set direction and build an aligned leadership team</li> <li>Fuel momentum and deliver results</li> </ul>
Your new leadership role begins the moment you accept the offer, the deal is done, or the re-organization is announced. The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan gives you a concrete framework for successful leadership and a clear roadmap to the critical first 100 days.

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

Lawler, John A.

Optimize your career development by focusing on what your job requires and what your colleagues need Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most provides an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt offer a fresh perspective on <ul> <li>Evaluating what values, strengths and capabilities you bring to your role</li> <li>How you can develop new skills to increase your influence</li> <li>Determining if you are in the right place to have the greatest impact</li> </ul> Through a trifecta of clear frameworks, accessible anecdotes, and pragmatic solutions, Influence and Impact shows the reader how to apply well-tested coaching tools to becoming more influential and achieving impact at work. If you have never worked with an executive coach--or even if you have--this book provides the concepts, techniques, and provocative questions to unpack personal paths to success. Perfect for executives, managers, leaders, and any professional who hopes to get a clearer picture of what their colleagues, superiors, and followers expect of them, Influence and Impact will allow to you refocus your efforts at work and obtain the results you've been looking for.

Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most

Berman, Bill

Job Hunting & Careers

Maximize your remote and in-person leadership impact in your first 100 days\nThe New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan has sold over 100,000 copies because it's so practical. The author team of accomplished private equity/M&A transition leaders explains in great detail, how to succeed in new leadership roles, build high-performance teams, execute winning strategies, and achieve organizational goals. The heavily revised 5th edition explains how to your due diligence before accepting a new role, and how to lead in remote or hybrid environments and how to leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion to meet team goals, drive growth and enhance any organization. 
Readers will also find: Roadmaps, tools and tips to understanding, improving, and leading organizational change, including digital initiatives New chapters focused on crisis situations, post-M&A integrations, turnarounds, and transformations Practical counsel on managing your Board 
A critical resource for leaders in any industry, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan walks you through your first days, weeks, and months in any new leadership role, when stakes are high and time is of the essence.\nFrom the Inside Flap\n40% of leaders fail within 18 months of entering a new role, for reasons ranging from poor fit, inability to deliver, or failure to adjust. PrimeGenesis was founded by George B. Bradt and Jayme A. Check in 2003 to address this problem. For over two decades, PrimeGenesis has reduced the rate of failure to less than 10% for clients while helping leaders and their teams deliver better results faster through critical transitions. 
In the extensively revised Fifth Edition of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan, readers will find critical guidance on how to rapidly assimilate into a new role and organization, build high-performance teams, implement winning strategies, and realize strategic, operational, organizational and leadership goals. If you find yourself in a new leadership role, this book will assist you in gaining confidence and ensuring you take the right actions to make a positive impact in your role and deliver better results faster. 
The latest edition contains new insights, real world examples, and practical advice on how to build culture and lead in traditional, remote, or hybrid environments. You’ll also gain critical insights on how to leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion to meet team goals, drive growth, and enhance any organization. Sample 100-day action plans are included, which can be adapted to fit your unique leadership circumstances. 
Readers will also find: Crucial roadmaps, tools, and tips on leading organizational change New chapters on leading in special circumstances, including crisis situations, post-M&A integrations, turnarounds, and transformations Practical counsel on managing your Board 
A critical resource for leaders in any industry, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan is a must-have guide as you work through your first days, weeks, and months in any new leadership role, especially when the stakes are high, and time is of the essence.\nFrom the Back Cover\nPraise for The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan 
“The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan offers practical tools and techniques for new leaders to follow. Leaders who use this book can expect impressive business and culture-building results.” 
—Joe Bonito, SVP, Bank of America (after Coach & Pfizer) 
“I have worked with PrimeGenesis twice in the last 24 months, first as a private equity investor and most recently as a first time leader of a company. In both cases, their process and facilitation created nearly immediate alignment around our strategy and tactics that dramatically accelerated value creation. We accomplished nearly a year of positive change within a month.” 
—Ryan Heckman, Private Equity Investor 
“In a hyper-competitive environment, it’s imperative that senior leaders — particularly CEOs — have as many tools as possible at their disposal. The New Leader’s 100

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Deliver Better Results Faster

Make your next merger or acquisition one for the ages Meant to create value potentially fueled by synergies, the reality is that most mergers and acquisitions fail. It's estimated that 83% of mergers and acquisitions do not hit their desired results. The Merger & Acquisition Leader's Playbook tells you why most mergers fail. More importantly, it tells you how to make your next one a sweeping success. In the book, a team of private equity experts deliver a masterful walkthrough of how to integrate organizations by driving commercial success, instead of focusing purely on cutting costs. Readers will find: <ul> <li>Concrete strategies for increasing the odds of success and reducing the risk of failure - of a new merger or acquisition</li> <li>A comprehensive, easily deployed and implemented plan to realize synergies</li> <li>Proven tools, techniques, and tricks of the trade to help leaders stay on top of their latest merger and keep everything on track</li> </ul> A must-read resource for business leaders considering a fresh merger or acquisition, The Merger & Acquisition Leader's Playbook: A Practical Guide to Integrating Organizations, Executing Strategy, and Driving New Growth after M&A or Private Equity Deals will also earn a place in the libraries of investors, agents, corporate service providers, and consultants trying to get two or more businesses to pull in the same direction.

The Merger & Acquisition Leader's Playbook: A Practical Guide to Integrating Organizations, Executing Strategy, and Driving New Growth after M&A or Private Equity Deals

Pritchett, Jeffrey P.

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