Executive Onboarding

Executive Onboarding
and they encompass:
o Acquisition of new leadership skills – new leadership
competencies are required to successfully perform at the
new leadership gate/level, (e.g. communication skills,
situational leadership skills).
o Expanding level management navigation – new
competencies are required to successfully cross individual
levels of management (i.e. from operational to tactical to
strategic).
o Building value chain understanding – new competencies
are required to successfully build a broader value chain
understanding, (e.g. from functional to business and from
group to enterprise).
o Grow stakeholder management platforms – new
competencies are required to successfully identify,
segment, target and interact with the new set of
stakeholders that will invariably surround a new
leadership gate/level.
o Time management – executives need to focus on time
management, making sure that time allocated to
themselves and their employees match the key priorities
(Kaplan, 2005). The keyword in this regard is focus, as it is
essentially a lack of focus that potentially becomes a key
obstacle to success – not a lack of time. Unfortunately, the
higher the leadership level, the more complex it becomes
to focus.
The key to a successful transition from one leadership gate/level
to the next rests in the ability of the transitioning executive to
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