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Leadership Acceleration & Onboarding

Ensure new leaders are focused on the business, the team, and their leadership to be able to hit the ground running and do the right job the right way.
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Leadership Acceleration & Onboarding

Ensure new leaders are focused on the business, the team, and their leadership to be able to hit the ground running and do the right job the right way.

Making a Strong First Impression

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You hire executives because of the business they can lead. But even seasoned leaders can miss key elements when they are in the midst of a high-pressure transition. Executive onboarding enables leaders to move faster and get it right the first time — setting strategic focus, managing critical stakeholders, and identifying early business wins that ensure transformational results.

We offer three interrelated approaches to onboarding based on different leadership transitions and organizational stages. Our coaches’ expertise includes working with leaders who are recently promoted, leaders taking on new responsibilities or expanded scope, and incoming executives whose focus is on transformation. All benefit from targeted onboarding.
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Assimilation

This leader-focused approach helps new leaders understand the job to be done, build self-awareness, and develop a network of colleagues and stakeholders.

Alignment

This growth-focused approach helps promoted leaders articulate their role, refine objectives, and define and grow the culture.

Acceleration

This team-focused approach helps incoming executives understand how to land effectively on day 1 and create a high-performing team.

Best-in-Class

Our experienced coaches offer premier tools and techniques to accelerate new leader performance via onboarding.

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Align Your Priorities With What Is Important to Your Manager

As the new general manager of a technology company, Zach prioritized what he believed would make his business unit successful: great products, smart pricing, and strong customer success. He became increasingly frustrated when his new chief executive, Marni, seemed disinterested in the things Zach knew were important. Marni kept asking Zach about the sales pipeline and new business development while Zack kept trying to focus on what he saw as market differentiators.

As a result, their relationship began to deteriorate. Zach’s onboarding acceleration coach helped him consider why Marni was so concerned with sales, with the aim of increasing their alignment. Zach closely observed Marni and began to look at the world the way she did. Realizing their investors were focused on short-term growth, Zach shifted to start all his meetings with sales-related performance; he spoke about other subjects only after they had reviewed these issues. The relationship with Marni quickly improved and Zach was still able to improve product development and customer engagement.

  • Understand your leadershipZach took the time to understand what his CEO  considered most important to ensure their areas of focus aligned.
  • Articulate your roleZach made sure he had a clear understanding about what was expected of him and how he would be evaluated.
  • Solve shared problemsZach became familiar with the business priorities prior to setting a path so his manager could fully support him. 

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The best athletes have coaches. As a CEO, I work with an executive coach from Berman Leadership to help me stay focused, help my team stay focused, help me communicate better, and help my team communicate better. I appreciate being able to bounce ideas off of them when I’m seeing issues from personnel to strategy. Their psychology based approach combined with business experience helps me navigate new problems and gives me great guidance for how to get from point A to point B when you don’t have a map.

CEO,
FinTech Software

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches make sure our leaders have a safe place to work through issues. Their coaches are highly intelligent, wonderful partners, who quickly get into a rhythm. I appreciate their flexible style and willingness to meet us in a place that works well for the organization.

Senior VP Human Resources,
Private Investment Firm

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The coaches at Berman Leadership start with intelligence. I appreciate their ability to rapidly diagnose, then offer sets of solutions to choose from that are situationally appropriate for my organization. Their psychological insight and business experience across industry and across different levels of the organization is invaluable.

SVP Global Clinical R&D,
Pharmaceutical

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches are good at being able to strategize, manage a situation, and provide really good solutions. I appreciate their flexibility and the thoughtful, creative way that they bring insight into their advice. They find the right balance between what works for the individual and what the firm needs, and then marry them together.

Managing Director of HR,
Global Investment Bank

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust the team at Berman Leadership to coach consistently with the organizational culture and business climate, and contextually with deep appreciation for the coache’s environmental challenges. Their incredibly deep approach, rooted in psychology, enables them to navigate incredibly complex and sensitive situations with our most senior folks.

Chief Talent Officer,
Vault50 Law Firm

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust Berman Leadership to operate at the highest level. Their process starts off with clear goals and focuses on what we are trying to achieve from a business perspective. I appreciate their balance between business focus and a strong research mindset.

Chief Talent Officer,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Every engagement I source, I look at the executive, the personality, the leadership, and the coach’s style, cadence, and approach to make sure they’re going to be the best fit. If I have a very senior executive in a critical, important role, I call on Berman Leadership for the high stakes assignment because the individual and the outcome are so important. I trust them to provide impact and seamlessly support cultural assimilation with their executive onboarding work because they understand our company so well.

VP HR,
Financial Services

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