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1. From Bud to Boss:
Secrets to a Successful Transition
to Remarkable Leadership
Presented by:
Kevin Eikenberry
Kevin@KevinEikenberry.com
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Brought to you in partnership:

2. Jessica Petry
Sr. Marketing Specialist
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Kevin Eikenberry
Leadership Expert and Chief Potential
Officer
The Kevin Eikenberry Group
@KevinEikenberry
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Which best describes me…
a. I’m an HR professional thinking about this
organizationally
b. I lead new supervisors and what to help
them succeed.
c. I am a new supervisor/leader – and have
been in the role less than 6 months
d. I am a new supervisor/leader – and have
been for longer than 6 months
e. Other – note it in the chat if you’d like!

4. Our Goals Today
 The 4 Changes a New Leader Faces
 Your Impact as a Leader
 Common New Leader Mistakes
 11 Components of the Supervisor Role
 Transition Conversations You Need to Have
 Better Performance Reviews
 Your Questions
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What is the most
important thing, idea, or
concept that you want to
get from our time
together?

6. What Changes?
 Relationships change
 Expectations change
 Needed skills change
 Perspective changes
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7. Relationship Changes
 With your team
 With former peers
 With other leaders
 With your leader
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8. Transition Conversations
 Your Team
 Your Friends
 Your New Boss
 Your New Peers
 Your Former Boss
 Others?
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9. Transition Conversations
 Make them intentional
 Goals
 Set expectations – both directions
 Establish relationship boundaries
 Understand communication preferences
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10. Your Dual Responsibility
 Represent the organization to the
team
 Represent the team to the
organization
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11. A Picture of Your World
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Management Leadership
Your Work

12. Skill Changes – the First Five
 Change
 Communication
 Coaching
 Collaboration and Teamwork
 Commitment to Success (Goals)
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13. Your Impact as a Leader
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14. Your Impact as a Leader
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15. Your Impact as a Leader
Results AND Relationships
not
Results OR Relationships
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16. Roles, Results and Relationships
• Helping people decide to change/make changes
• Coaching team members
• Delegating tasks
• Getting things done/creating results
• Inspiring people to action
• Setting goals
• Communicating up, down and across the
organization
• Developing others
• Building a team
• Resolving conflicts
• Holding people accountable
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17. Common New Leader Mistakes
Usually Caused by Imbalance
(Not understanding where to “draw the line”)
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18. Four Examples
 The delegation balance
 The “rules” balance
 The relationship balance
 The change balance
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19. Excited about doing
performance reviews?
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20. A Behavior Focus
 Not:
 Attitude
 Intentions
 Why they did what they did
 What they were thinking
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21. A Behavior Focus
 Do talk about:
 Actions
 Words
 Accomplishments
 Results
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22. Positive or Negative?
 Focus on the positive and confront
the negative
 Bridge with “and” not “but”
 4:1 Rule
 Pygmalion Effect
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23. Make it Ongoing
 You can do more than the minimum
 Keep track of both good and bad
 No surprises
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24. Reduce Anxiety
 Acknowledge the stress
 Make it a safe place
 Pick a good time
 Invite carefully
 More frequency = less stress
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25. The “Form”
 The form is an outcome, not the
reason
 Relationship over process
 Documentation
 Records/Legal requirements
 Past vs. future focus
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26. HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE AS
A NEW SUPERVISOR
From Bud to
Boss:
20 Course Video
Series

27. A Special Offer
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Download your copy at:
http://www.budtoboss.com/bl

28. Getting The Most
 Think and reflect
 Teach someone else
 Questions for me? Ask!
 Decide and act
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29. For More Information
To learn more about Kevin and The Kevin Eikenberry Group . . .
 http://KevinEikenberry.com
 Kevin’s blog - http://blog.KevinEikenberry.com
 LinkedIn / Facebook / Twitter (@KevinEikenberry)
The Bud to Boss Community – free resources for leaders
 http://BudtoBossCommunity.com
To contact Kevin for training, consulting or speaking
inquiries, contact info@KevinEikenberry.com
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