Taking the Pulse: Organizational Mastery for Newly Appointed Leaders: A complete handbook for effective leadership transitions. A must f

This is a complete handbook for effective leadership transitions. It is a guide for newly appointed leaders as well as a resource for Human Resources Officers, Chief Learning Officers, executive coaches and facilitators. The book presents a specific method for newly appointed leaders to quickly grasp the key organizational challenges facing them in their new assignment. The method employs high-tech support using a web-based application designed to produce a comprehensive organizational assessment by way of confidential interviews with superiors, peers, direct reports and customers of the newly appointed leader. This is combined with high-touch support from a transition coach and a transition meeting that produces an action plan for the first 100 days in the new assignment.

Author: William F. Pilder Ph. D.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 04/03/2012
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9781463647377

About the Author
William F. Pilder, Ph.D. www.leadershiptransitions.net wpilder@leadershiptransitions.net 845.405.6408 Areas of Expertise -Senior Leadership Coaching -Leadership Transition -Team Coaching -Talent Retention -Competency Frameworks -360 degree Feedback William is an educator, an entrepreneur and a seasoned executive coach. He has been a founding partner in three entrepreneurial ventures, each related to providing career development and transition services to individuals and major corporations in a wide range of industries. In this context, he has been involved in major change management initiatives in the steel, energy and auto industries. He co-authored a series of eight books published by Prentice-Hall on the career transition process. William is experienced in the coaching of senior executives using competency frameworks and 360 degree feedback as an integral part of the coaching process. He has been coaching senior executives since 1975. In his coaching work, William emphasizes the importance of developing strengths rather than a focus on weaknesses. He is a skilled and intuitive listener with a great deal of business experience. He seeks to make the coaching experience one where executives find a place to confide, reflect and bring wisdom to their daily work life. As President of Leadership Transitions Solutions, William provides an innovative Leadership Transition Program to support managers in assuming new positions that combines coaching, interviewing and team development to insure successful integration of the new manager into an organizational unit. The Leadership Transition Program is supported by Dialogue(TM), a Web-based tool that generates valuable organizational intelligence for newly appointed leaders. William is a certified administrator for the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strategic Leadership Development 360 assessment instruments. William's undergraduate degree is from the University of Dayton. He has a Masters Degree and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.

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