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Onboarding Tales from Newly Hired Leaders

I presented the topic: Best Practices for Making Leadership Changes Effective from Day 1” at the monthly meeting of the Human Resources Management Association of New Mexico last week. Over a third of the 150 attendees were engaged enough in the topic of onboarding and leadership transitions to complete an online pre-meeting survey. One of [...]

The True Cost of CEO Turnover

Most New Leader Journeys readers are familiar with the financial costs and risk of senior executive turnover within the first 18 months of joining a new company or accepting a new role, There are also other financial and non-financial costs that don’t get as much attention including the following risks:

Customer Dissatisfaction – customer relationships can be damaged during [...]

Clog in the Succession Planning Pipeline?

I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about how CEO turnover has declined from 15.4% in 2005 to 13.8% in 2007, This data is part of a Booz & Co. analysis that was released today. An optimist might think that overall CEO performance is improving, while a pessimist might say that [...]

New Leader Journeys and Engagement Journeys Series

The complimentary New Leader Journeys with Mark Walztoni teleseminar series launched on May 15th. This six-part series relates to a leader’s critical first 90 days on a new role, and are hosted or presented by me. My special guest presenters series are Matt Rix, (www.mattrixx.com), an executive storytelling coach, and Kathy Trickey, (www.ktglobalassociates.com), a global and virtual [...]

The 49% Solution to Improve Leadership Transitions

Leadership IQ, a global leadership training and research company recently completed a three-year study of the reasons for leadership failure. They found that the top five reasons for failure were;

Poor Coach-ability (26%) – The inability to accept and implement feedback from bosses, colleagues, customers, and others.
Lack of Emotional Intelligence (23%) – The inability to understand [...]