Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Leader

Welcome to management! Now what the heck do you do? Before you start your first management position, it's important to prepare yourself for a shift in mindset and priorities. In this teleconference, leadership expert and, best-selling author, and consultant Roberta Matuson explains how to successfully make the shift from individual contributor to leader. She'll share strategies to help you transition from focusing on your own performance to managing the workload of others. She'll help you address common challenges such as how to manage workers who are old enough to be your parents, as well as how to oversee the work of former peers. She'll provide tips on how to create a magnetic workplace where employees love to work and customers love to do business. Tips on how to engage and manage performance will be shared as well.

In this program, you'll learn:

• How to build productive relationships
• The importance of employee engagement
• How to effectively manage your former peers
• What you need to do to build employee commitment
• How to manage your former peers
• The skills necessary to be an effective manager
• How to transition into a magnetic leader

Presented By:

Roberta Matuson

For more than 25 years, Roberta Chinsky Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, GM, Microsoft and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She is known world-wide as “The Talent Maximizer®.”

Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of four books including the recently released, The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers and Profits, the international best-seller, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders and Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace that Attracts and Keeps the Best. She's a speaker, who frequently presents at corporate events and at leading industry conferences.