Discover valuable insights, strategies, and practical tips on transition acceleration and leadership development.
At HBR Live: Master Your Next Move, held in London, UK in October 2019, Michael Watkins spoke to an audience of senior executives and talent management professionals about the eight common transition challenges that most leaders encounter in their professional lifetime. According to Watkins, “leaders go through a lot of transitions… So transitioning is a core […]
In this Forbes article, Michael Watkins offers his advice for successfully navigating the first crucial days in a new role and underscores the importance of making a good first impression. The article is based on an interview he originally gave with LearnVest. LearnVest: Why are the first 90 days on the job so important? Michael D. Watkins: Lots […]
Genesis Co-Founder Michael Watkins and Genesis Leadership Consultant Pat Costello created a simple way for leadership teams to assess and discuss how you and your organization are managing through the COVID-19 crisis. We invite Genesis News readers to put this simple assessment to work. Visit our Leadership Team Survey website, where you will find all the tools you need to implement […]
It’s all-too-easy to shift into “action mode” during a crisis and forget that your people are experiencing great uncertainty about their futures. So, even as you experience the powerful impulse to act, temper that with a focus on coaching your people through a potentially crippling period of uncertainty. While the situation may be very difficult, […]
In his recent podcast with How to be Awesome at Your Job‘s Pete Mockaitis, Michael Watkins shares the new conversations leaders need to have in order to empower and support their teams during difficult times. You’ll Learn: Michael Watkins Interview Transcript Pete MockaitisMichael, welcome back to the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast. Michael WatkinsIt’s great to be […]
Many companies think they are doing a good job of onboarding newly-hired executives when they actually aren’t… In “Onboarding Isn’t Enough,” a recent Harvard Business Review article co-authored with Mark Byford and Lena Triantogiannis from Egon Zehnder, we showed that many companies think they are doing a good job of onboarding newly-hired executives when they actually aren’t. […]
