/PRNewswire/ – How important to you is the success of your latest executive hire?
The startling statistic is that the new leader failure rate consistently ranges from 40 to 50%. Half of new senior leaders fail to succeed in their roles. Many who fail do so within their first two years. As outlined in The Leadership Crucible’s white paper on Executive Integration, this costs the firm not only in profitability but also:
“The tragedy is that most organizations adopt a ‘sink or swim’ approach when it comes to onboarding senior leaders,” Says The Leadership Crucible’s Michael Burroughs, author of Before Onboarding: How to Integrate Leaders for Quick and Sustained Results. “On the other hand, the best firms adopt a structured approach to senior leader onboarding that takes the guess work out of integration and accelerates the time to performance in the new role,” says Burroughs.
The outcomes of executive integration are to:
“Our proprietary executive integration process addresses the challenges of senior leader onboarding in order to achieve specific organizational objectives and make the new leader successful over the short and long term,” says Joe Scherrer, President of The Leadership Crucible. “We use seasoned ‘coach integrators’ who partner with the firm and the new leader over a 120 day period to manage the transition and lock-in results. In short, the process works.”
Source: The Leadership Crucible
The author surveyed 5,600 workers from various industries from January 2019 to December 2021, finding that worker dissatisfaction not only starts as early as age 25 — it’s been here since before the pandemic started. Her advice: aim for work-life alignment, not work-life balance. Find out what drives them as an individual — and reshape their jobs together. Engage them in the recruiting process.
There’s been a lot of buzz about a 4-day workweek. But it will be the ‘4 + 1’ workweek that ultimately wins out: 4 days of “work” and 1 day of “learning.” Several forces are converging in a way that point toward the inevitability of this workplace future.
How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize that change exhaustion is not an individual issue, but a collective one that needs to be addressed at the team or organization level.
