The New Manager / Key Colleague Program is all about helping key leaders and their teams to maximize performance as they assume their new roles.

We will help those we work with to:

• Assess strengths and areas needing development
• Make the most of their style and preferences to achieve business results
• Gain insight into potential barriers to meeting the challenges of their new roles
• Formulate and execute actions calculated to produce desired results

Coaching is, at its heart, all about dialogue; goal setting; feedback; advice, and encouragement. Coaching is not conceptual in nature. Instead, it is very much “hands on ”, immediate, and focused on specific business needs and development issues. Individuals or groups who are “well coached ” develop increased capability over the course of time. In this particular coaching program, while we will assist our clients in looking toward longer-term goal achievement, we will focus most sharply on addressing specific short-term critical business tasks and assimilating the new leader into his / her role.

As a new leader, others’ expectations of you will have changed. They will observe how you do what you do, so you must ‘walk the talk’. As you assume leadership responsibility, it is critical that you:

• Are able to honestly assess your capabilities and areas in need of development
• Acquire a thorough understanding of the situation you are being asked to manage, including your specific role, the make-up of the team reporting to you, and the critical business issues you face
• Develop a network of working relationships

The New Manager / Key Colleague Coaching Program uses three web-based questionnaires to provide participants with facts about what motivates them, information about their personalities, and data concerning their modes of resolving conflict. In addition, we will use state-of-the art business tools to help you understand the short-term challenges that need to be identified and overcome.

Viewed as a package, these questionnaires and tools, in addition to conversations with the participant and others, will enable your AdVantage Consulting coach to provide each person with a substantial amount of feedback about their potential strengths and weaknesses, and enable the creation of specific plans of action.