When taking over a new team, a leader must acknowledge the contributions of previous leadership while also addressing any issues. It is important to recognize both the positives and negatives of the former leader to create separation from the past. The new leader should enable a vision for the future by fostering forgiveness for past mistakes to allow people to move forward together. Seeking to understand employees' experiences under previous leadership will help inform the new vision and prevent repeating past failures.

1. What new leaders should do
when dealing with a new team!
Brazil
Business Strategist Roberto Lico
licoreis@licoreis.com.br

2. Every leader who starts working with
a new team faces the same challenge:
They must handle with the
accomplishments and shortcomings
of previous ones.

3. Important!
A new leader may have to take
accountability for your predecessor’s
mistakes, while simultaneously set up a
new vision for the whole team.

4. Be aware that a poor leadership can
damage an organization and institution,
and often a new leader must take
aggressive action in order to save the
enterprise.

5. We would like to share some assertive
approaches regarding this leadership
transitional period.

6. Acknowledge the contributions of the previous
leader:
Good leaders create a separation between the past and the future
and they acknowledge the past realities, including the likelihood
that any leader, no matter how poor, did something right.
New leaders are well advised to acknowledge any positives that a
predecessor brought while also openly discussing the trauma and
damage they created within the enterprise.

7. Enable a vision for the future by creating a space for
forgiveness:
Often, we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their
actions. Reminding people of this doesn’t absolve the previous
leader, but it does humanize outgoing leadership and creates room
for forgiveness. As the saying goes “to err is human, to forgive
divine.” In this context, forgiveness creates room for a new vision
and direction and allows people to let go of the past and move into
the future together.

8. Seek to understand your employees’ experiences:
Many new leaders falter when they simply see themselves as the
corrective force to their predecessors without investing the time to
understand the full impact of the previous regime. Listen to people
who felt the adverse effects of the previous leader and use that
information to inform your vision. Bad leaders don’t ask those
questions, but good leaders always do.

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Roberto Lico – licoreis@licoreis.com.br

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