Why Strong Performers Struggle After Promotion
Promotion changes the work, information flow, and cost of error. Learn why prior performance can mislead promotion decisions and what to assess instead.
Read the analysisLeadership insights
The job changes what a leadership strength is worth.
Analysis of promotion, executive transition, assessment, and the operating conditions that make the same leader effective in one role and costly in another.
What a Leadership Assessment Should Measure Before Promotion
A useful promotion assessment measures the leader, the next role, and the interaction between them. Here are the decision variables that matter.
Read the analysisThe First 90 Days After an Executive Promotion
The first 90 days should test the assumptions behind an executive promotion. Focus on information flow, decision rights, and the new role’s operating demands.
Read the analysisWhy Leadership Strengths Reverse in a New Environment
Leadership strengths do not travel intact. Threat and stability can turn the same tendency from useful to costly.
Read the analysisFrontline Supervisor Development in Kansas City
Kansas City companies can prepare frontline supervisors for the shift from technical work to authority, feedback, standards, and shift-level decisions.
Read the analysisExecutive Coaching or Executive Assessment?
Coaching and assessment solve different problems. Use assessment when the source of friction is uncertain and coaching when the development target is already clear.
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