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HOW TO OVERCOME THE NEWLY PROMOTED
LEADER DILEMMA: THE 12 SUCCESS PRACTICES
FOR GETTING UPTO SPEED MORE QUICKLY AND
EFFECTIVELY THAN EVER BEFORE
In order to deal effectively with the newly promoted leader dilemma and
achieve success in the first 12 months in your new leadership role, you will
need to accomplish the following:
1. Confirm and deliver on your “must-do” priorities for your first 3, 6, 9,
and 12 months.
2. Confirm the full scope of your responsibilities, available resources, levels
of decision-making authority, ways in which your performance will be
measured, and desired ways to communicate with your report-to leaders.
3. Begin to learn the essence of your role very quickly, preferably well
before you actually begin in your position.
4. Determine who is “on the bus” and who is not.
5. Make excellent initial impressions, and convey your key leadership com-
munication messages and strategies with conviction and enthusiasm.
6. Personally connect with your team and one-to-one with team members.
7. Build strong internal and external stakeholder partnerships.
8. Mesh with the existing culture, or decide to build the type of culture that
you believe is necessary.
9. Decide what needs changing. Then execute, execute, execute!
10. Create and implement a robust leadership development and talent man-
agement plan.
11. Leverage your top strengths, but do not overuse them.
12. Manage the impact of your moving up on your family, health, and time.

Let’s take a closer look at these success factors and preview how they will
be addressed throughout the book.
In order to deal effectively with the newly promoted leader dilemma and
achieve success in the first 12 months in your new leadership role, you will
need to accomplish the following:

1. Confirm and deliver on your must-do priorities for your first 3, 6, 9, and
12 months. You will need to confirm your must-do deliverables with vital input
from your report-to leader or leaders and also important stakeholders. Once