LSA Global Insights Newsletter: October 2012

October 31, 2012

Becoming a New Leader - 5 Common Traps to Avoid

Congratulations... but beware!

You have been newly promoted to a leadership role.
Maybe you are the new head of sales or customer service. Perhaps you have taken over a team of engineers or a new project team.

Hopefully you received a nice new title and a raise. But these probably come with a lot more responsibility.

If you don't start off on the right foot, you risk undoing all of the hard work, sacrifice, and influence that worked for you in the past and earned you this new position.

Everyone is watching. Your first few moves are critical.

So, as a new leader, what are the top five traps to avoid in your first 90 days?

Read more about the top 5 new leader traps to avoid...


Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned

How to Navigate Change with the 5 Leadership Lenses

At some point during your career as a leader, you will be required to successfully guide others through change.

The larger and more complex the changes, the greater the challenge. Based upon over 25 years of change research, we have learned that successful leaders navigate change through Five Lenses.

The lenses enable leaders who are pursuing corporate change to expand beyond their preferred lens to increase the likelihood for success. The lenses are:

  1. Relationships
  2. Culture
  3. Stakeholders
  4. Structure
  5. Information

Each lens is directly related to the primary reasons that change efforts fail. Using all the lenses together ensures a complete picture of the change. By using different lenses separately, you can bring various aspects of the change into greater focus.

Successful Change Leaders understand and utilize each of these lenses.

Read more about the 5 Lenses of Change Leadership

Learn more about successfully navigating change...


Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned