
Prepare for leadership at a higher level by learning from longitudinal research on 2,700 leaders, identifying pitfalls, planning transitions, and developing four dimensions of effective leadership.
Prepare for broad leadership by understanding common challenges, coaching gaps, and the ascend, adjust, assert, affect framework to thrive when moving to higher roles.
Identify the five common traps hobbling rising leaders: the myth of the mandate, diagnosis becoming indictment, decision compression, intolerance of ambiguity, and letting go of what you know.
Navigate how leaders are misperceived as their lives play out on the jumbotron, embody the role, and shape the narrative to cultivate trust and a clear identity.
Explore how the megaphone effect amplifies a leader's words and actions, and learn to lead out loud with clear, intentional communication to prevent misinterpretation.
New leaders must level-set expectations and map how information flows, because information is a currency of influence and data can be sifted or distorted.
Navigate changed relationships after promotion by resetting expectations and boundaries with direct reports, peers, and bosses; have open conversations to build trust, seek support, and manage isolation.
Develop a solid transition plan by building a learning plan, distilling priorities, sizing up talent to shape a cohesive team, and implementing ongoing feedback to calibrate leadership.
Explore how to understand and use power effectively by leveraging three sources: positions, relationships, and information to create justice, unlock others' potential, and broaden perspectives for better organizational outcomes.
master context by studying your industry, how it makes money, and value for customers, while staying curious and embracing competing viewpoints to prepare for disruption with a long-term learning mindset.
Lead across silos by cultivating breadth to see the organization as a whole and build bridges between adjacent functions, unlocking cross-functional collaboration, innovation, and greater value.
Make hard calls to narrow focus by balancing instinct and data-driven analytics, declare views, weigh trade-offs, and communicate accountable decisions that prioritize key goals and guide execution.
Build authentic relationships by prioritizing others' success, listening deeply, and empowering colleagues to grow, guided by three questions about collaboration, important projects, and support.
Lead at higher levels by embracing the privilege to serve, grounding your purpose in impact, and performing a personal controlled burn to shed traits that hinder breadth, connection, and leadership.
Do you have ambitions to rise up in your organization to a position of broad leadership? Are you vying for a promotion, but worry you may not be ready? Or did you recently start in a bigger job leading several levels of employees, and are starting to feel overwhelmed or uncertain?
This is the course for you. Based on the #1 bestselling book Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives, co-author Ron Carucci will guide you through every step of a successful transition to a bigger role. Based on a 10-year longitudinal study of more than 2700 leaders, the research and course content will help you learn:
Why more than 50% of those promoted to bigger roles fail in the first 18 months, and how to avoid those pitfalls
The common challenges leaders face at higher altitudes, and how to successfully navigate them
The four dimensions that set the most successful leaders apart, and how to develop them in your own leadership
This course is chock full of practical insights and examples of leaders rising in organizations and sticking the landing once there. You’ll assess your own experiences with the pitfalls and disorienting effects of higher leadership and plan concrete actions for successfully navigating them. You’ll build your transition plan, which can help even if you’ve already taken the job, and you’ll complete a self-assessment of the four dimensions of exceptional leaders to understand where you have strengths, and where you may have blind spots.
Rising to Power and the research behind it has already saved countless careers from the high failure rates of otherwise promising, aspiring leaders. Ron Carucci is a 30 year seasoned executive coach who has worked with hundreds of executives all over the world. Now you can have the benefit of his experience and research at your fingertips, fueling your leadership ambitions to success.