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Posted by: | on December 9, 2023

Excelling as a 1st Time Supervisor or Manager

According to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), “Within the first 24 months of taking a new position, 60% of new managers fail.”

You shouldn’t be surprised by this statistic. Many first-time supervisors and managers are thrown into deep water to see if they can swim or sink. Unfortunately, the majority are sinking.

They are unable to make a smooth transition and excel at their new role. In the process, they also hurt their well-being, performance, and relationships.

However, I have worked with some proactive organizations that didn’t wait 24 months to see whether their new supervisors and managers can survive or not. They don’t let their new leaders swim alone and solo without giving them the proper training and equipping them with the right gear. I traveled around the country to facilitate workshops specifically designed for new supervisors and managers.

At the end of each session, you could see the excitement, confidence, and sense of relief from participants. Many of them mentioned they had wished they had this workshop months ago prior or as soon as they were promoted. Some regretted the stress, anxiety, and uncertainty that tortured them for weeks and months. These could have been avoided. They also admitted that they could have become a little bit more assertive, and productive, and improved their relationships with key stakeholders sooner if they passed through this program earlier.

If you’re a senior leader responsible for managing, coaching, and mentoring first-time supervisors and managers, you were among those 40% who survived and ultimately succeeded in climbing the corporate ladder. When you were a new supervisor or manager, you might have gotten some support from your superiors, or you took matters into your own hands and made the transition successfully. But many of your peers didn’t make it.

I have noticed that many senior leaders don’t see the need to arrange transition programs for their coachees and mentees. They made the transition by themselves successfully back then when they were just starting, consciously or unconsciously, they presume that the current new leaders in their organization too could make it, if not right away, at the end of the day…

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Note: As you know, we’re a non-profit organization, and we offer most of our services for FREE, in a few cases, we charge a nominal price to cover our expenses. But, our programs are limited to community organizations in Emerging Economies and diaspora communities in the Western hemisphere.

However, if you’re our strategic partner or a non-profit or community organization and have supervisors and managers, you should get the programs of Success Pathways, LLC.

As you may already know, Success Pathways support PRO Leadership financially and offers discounts to PRO Leadership’s Strategic Partners. Reach out to its team via [email protected] and mention that you’re our Strategic Partner and a non-profit, they’ll give you discount.

If you’re an aspiring or new team leader, project manager, or supervisors, click here and take advantage of the promotional price to get the eBook of Overcoming 1st Timer for just 1 USD (plus bonuses worth of 1, 400 USD).

If you have any questions or would like to partner with us, reach out to our team at [email protected]

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Posted by: | on October 25, 2018

Presented for the Leadership talk show at Amarah TV

The host of the leadership “Yesera Amerar Tebebe” show that airs on Amhara media- Ayele Anawete, invited me to contribute toward a show aired today. The theme of the session was “Leadership within Government Agencies”. I was asked to cover two topics as a background (appetizer 🙂 to the main discussion that was covered by the main guest inside the studio. The points I addressed were Who is a leader? What are the key leadership attributes vital to succeed?

I applaud the effort of the producer and also the Amhara media for giving leadership development an emphasis and priority. As the saying goes, leadership makes or breaks. No country, organization nor business could be able to fly above the level of growth of its leadership. Unfortunately, in our country, there is a common notion that leaders are those who are at the top with authority and title. We cannot transform our nation and organizations without raising as many leaders as possible at all levels.

That was why in the first part of my presentation, I addressed this issue declaring that we all are leaders wherever we are, at least, for our job description. I emphasized that impactful leaders at the top encourage and empower their people to take leadership. They create the right culture, provide incentives, and promote those who take lead.

The second issue I raised was the importance of developing certain leadership qualities. Like any other competence, leadership requires an investment of time and resources. Sadly, unlike in other cultures, we undermine soft skills like leadership competence. We are okay to go to school, invest our time, energy and money to attend training to learn technical skills but we hesitate even refuse to do the same and fail to improve our leadership abilities. Many of our leaders lead out of zeal and using just conventional wisdom, in the 21st C, without developing the necessary leadership attributes (For that matter, many lead Bechebeta 🙂 For detail, watch the full session. I myself missed the whole session and looking forward to getting the recording. Will share with you the link when it becomes available. Stay tuned!

Assegid Habtewold, Bridge Builder

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Posted by: | on October 5, 2018

Interview with the Leaders of Your Ethiopian Professionals Network

Last week, I had the opportunity to interview the co-founders of Your Ethiopian Professionals Network. In this interview, we talked about:

  1. Why YEP exists? What was the very reason that led you to establish YEP
  2. What are the top three major achievements of YEP?
  3. What are the 3 biggest lessons you learned individually because you have been serving as leaders?
  4. What are the toughest challenges YEP faces?
  5. What lessons would you like to share with other similar professional groups?
  6. What the future holds for YEP? Where do you see YEP in the next five years?
  7. Are there some ongoing or upcoming projects you’re engaged with right now that you would like to share with our viewers?
  8. And more.

These young dynamic leaders have a lot to offer. I encourage you to watch their interview. Reach out to them if you may have any feedback or question. And of course, if you’re in the DC metro area, join YEP, be with like-minded people to grow personally and professionally. If you’re in Ethiopia, no worries, you can be part of the initiative they recently introduced in Addis.

To learn more about Pick Yourself Up and watch archive interviews, check out its website.

 

 

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