& individual coaching
Ensure a seamless leadership transition
- Learn how to create positive momentum in your new role
- Understand and avoid classic leadership transition traps
- Create a roadmap for a successful first 90 days in your new role
Key benefits
Assess the situation in your new role, including the business challenges, your new team, the culture, and the stakeholder environment
Define your strategic direction and plan how to align expectations, reshape your team, create alliances and secure “early wins”.
Create a roadmap to navigate this critical, challenging time and implement your transition strategy for success in your new role.
Design a detailed action plan for a successful first 90 days
How the program works
The First 90 Days® is a highly-interactive virtual learning journey consists of pre-program, program and post-program elements. The program runs over 3 half-days.
Pre-program
Start your learning with case studies and background reading.
Program
Explore The First 90 Days® Transition Roadmap framework and toolkit and apply it. By analyzing your transition challenges and defining your goals (for you, your teams and your organization), you’ll design a plan for your next 90 days and identify ways to deliver results immediately. This learning journey is highly interactive, offering you case discussions, assessment exercises and peer coaching.
Post-program
After the program ends, you have the option, for an additional fee, of getting coaching to further develop and implement your plan for the next 90 days. An experienced coach, trained in The First 90 Days® Transition Roadmap framework and skilled in helping leaders accelerate their transitions would work with you 1:1 over the next 30 to 60 days.
- Explore the 8 key steps for a successful leadership transition
- Analyze your transition challenges
- Understand how to avoid the common leadership transition traps
- Define your roadmap and strategy
Throughout the program, you will take part in wide-ranging and challenging discussions, intensive group projects and live case studies. The program design gives ample opportunities for rich interaction with faculty and among peers.
Participants profile
You are a leader who has recently taken on a challenging new role or will shortly do so. For example, you may be joining a new company or business unit, or have been promoted to a more complex, senior role in your current company. If possible, you should take the program at the latest within four months of formally starting your new job.
Enabled by state-of-the-art classroom technology, you will interact with a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience.
What our participants say
I highly recommend this program to those who are taking over positions as new leaders. Michael Watkins takes you through a step-by-step process of creating first impressions, working with new teams, and securing early wins.
The content can be customized to the unique requirement of each company but the “First 90 days” approach offers a state-of-the-art process to succeed in a new role.
The diversity of the participants and the interaction with the small teams contributed to this great experience. I was in a team composed of people from very different backgrounds, industries and companies. This diversity allowed me to be exposed to different point of views about our personal transition scenarios.
Work with expert faculty to make your leadership transition a success
This is a complete, compact, efficient learning journey to accelerate your transition to business leadership. We give you a proven framework, based on work with thousands of leaders taking new roles. You design the plan which delivers the results you want.
Get details about The First 90 Days® program
Accelerate your leadership transition. Download program information to learn more about:
- The program learning journey
- Benefits for you and your organization
IMD is ranked #1 in the world for Open Programs for the ninth consecutive year in the 2020 Financial Times Executive Education Rankings.
