Onboarding & Leadership Acceleration

How can you facilitate the integration of your executives and ensure that their transition to new functions is as smooth and successful as possible?

Frédéric Bagutti
4 min readSep 8, 2023

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Career development can take many forms: taking on new responsibilities within the organization through internal mobility, promotion, or a change of company, sector or even industry.

A professional life is built up in stages, and at each one, the habits and beliefs that had been beneficial up to that point are potentially challenged.

One of the pitfalls executives face when taking up a new position is underestimating the novelty of the situation. Of course, certain familiar elements are always present — more direct reports, new regions, new products, new dotted line reporting, … A priori, why assume that this transition to new functions would not go as smoothly as most successful transitions before?…

However, adaptation can be tricky since any change of role involves a more or less extensive transition phase that is both a stimulating opportunity and a source of stress.

Optimizing the first few months and successfully integrating into a new environment, as well as embodying a new…

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Frédéric Bagutti
Frédéric Bagutti

Written by Frédéric Bagutti

Organizational psychologist, executive and team coach, coach supervisor, MSc, DESS, EMCCC INSEAD. You can find me at: www.bagutticonsulting.com

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