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Title: Transitioning to Management: Leading Professional and Expert-Based Groups

Competencies: leadership, career development

Who benefits: specialists in or transitioning to leadership roles, bosses and coaches of specialists

Consultant Usage: executive and career development coaches

What’s it about? Today’s posting is a follow-up to my colleague/boss Ken Nowack’s wonderfully insightful post of a month ago entitled “Avoiding the Mistake of Moving Specialists to Leadership Roles”.  You can scroll down this site if you wish to reread it.  (Disclaimer: As I am want-to-do on occasions, this is my latest obvious ploy of sucking up to management.)

He makes a great case for not putting square pegs in round holes.  But it is going to happen.  And as chance would have it, I just came across a seminar that deals head on with the issue and is available this year in the US, UK, and Europe.

The one-day program is entitled “Transitioning to Management: Leading Professional and Expert-Based Groups”. The program is specifically aimed at specialists who are struggling with the move into a leadership role.

The program is presented by the Institute for Management Studies (IMS), which I have personally found to be excellent on all programs I attended.  The faculty is uniformly outstanding.

The presenter is Peter Krembs who is a Fellow, University of Minnesota Executive Development Programs at the Carlson School of Management, and is also on the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He specializes in the unique issues found in professional and expert-based cultures, including science, technology, financial services and health care.

If you are yourself a specialist under pressure with a leadership role, or your boss is, or you are coach who frequently deals with this specific issue, I encourage you to find a way to attend this workshop.  This program is not open to external consultants.  Not all internals will qualify, but you can “negotiate” one time exceptions.

Catch you later.

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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.