Are you in transition – joining a new business in a leadership role or will do shortly? Do you have leaders taking critical roles who have been hired from the outside or are making challenging internal moves?

To secure your success, you need to get up to speed quickly and find ways to create positive momentum in your new role.

During this NEW highly interactive, 2-day learning journey, you diagnose the situations you have inherited, define strategic direction, build your teams, create alliances, and secure early wins. And you establish a detailed action plan that shows you how to create successful momentum for your first 90 days.

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Match your strategy to your situation, so you can lead the right changes in the right ways. Then align with your new managers and superiors

Identify key stakeholders and build an alliance to support your key initiatives

Assess, reshape, align and accelerate the team you inherited

Establish direction for yourself and your organization, plus the momentum to secure early wins

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You and your class

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.

Your class is individually put together through a selection process to ensure that you experience the most impactful learning 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.

40%

Fail without onboarding training

90

Critical days for new leaders

2x

faster success with right support

4-6

months to full operational success

Work with expert faculty to impact your career

Work with the world’s leading expert in accelerating transitions, Professor Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days®: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Smarter and Faster. The First 90 Days®, which The Economist called “The Onboarding Bible,” has sold more than a million copies in English, and has been translated into 24 languages.

Work with expert faculty to impact your career

Work with the world’s leading expert in accelerating transitions, Professor Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days®: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Smarter and Faster. The First 90 Days®, which The Economist called “The Onboarding Bible,” has sold more than a million copies in English, and has been translated into 24 languages.

This program enables you to prepare for your next career steps and create all the conditions for you to succeed in your new role!

Carlo Carrescia

HR VP Europe & IT Channels Governance, Schneider Electric, Italy

Work with the world’s leading expert in accelerating transitions, Professor Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days®: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Smarter and Faster. The First 90 Days®, which The Economist called “The Onboarding Bible,” has sold more than a million copies in English, and has been translated into 24 languages.

This is not an event but 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.

Michael Watkins

Program Director

Next start & fee

Program length: 2 days

2019

from

19

Nov.

to

20

Nov.

Zürich

CHF 3,900

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2020

from

26

Feb.

to

27

Feb.

Lausanne

CHF 3,900

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2020

from

27

May

to

28

May

Zürich

CHF 3,900

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2020

from

24

Sept.

to

25

Sept.

Lausanne

CHF 3,900

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SPECIAL OFFER

CHF 3,500 for IMD alumni

CHF 2,900 for MBA and EMBA alumni

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