Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

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company needs to support, and develop specific, targeted addi-

tional resources to support them.

In particular, there often are good reasons to provide new lead-

ers with additional resources for dealing with two common types

of transitions:

• Promotion. As discussed in chapter 1, when leaders are

promoted they typically have to alter their approach

to leadership in predictable ways. The competencies

required for them to be successful at the new level may

be quite different from what made them successful at

their previous level. They also may be expected to play

different roles, exhibit different behaviors, and engage

with direct reports in different ways. So focused sets of

resources that help newly promoted leaders “take it to a

new level” ...