Testimonial from Bill Kramer, Vice President, Solutions Engineering & Architecture, AT&T

"The Leadership Transition Program (LTP) is a great way to give a new manager a head start on scope of responsibility of their role, expectations of that role and learn more about their team and peers more quickly. It accelerates the learning and ramp up time.

I hired LTP to support one of my new hires who came to AT&T with a strong IT and consulting background but no knowledge of my team, the customer facing team or what her organization did. Her ramp up was going to be monumental. Her learning was accelerated through the participation in the LTP process that stepped her through feedback from her peers and me.

I also find LTP to be an effective way to support an employee who�s transitioning from a manager role to director role or from a tactical to strategic role.

The 360 with peers and upper management is a great way to get constructive feedback about strengths and weaknesses. The Executive Coaching and Self Development helps you understand the image you have and balance perspective strengths and weaknesses. Peer perspective and your own perspective do not always match. The feedback from 360 and coaching help you focus on areas for improvement. It also helps you leverage key strengths to help improve the areas needing development."

Testimonial from Brent Smiley, P.E., Process Quality Manager, Ingersoll Rand Residential Solutions

"The benefit of the Leadership Transition Program (LTP) is the discussions generated through the process that otherwise wouldn�t occur. We went through a significant amount of change last year (2009). We knew issues were out there. We needed to blow them to the top and get them out on the table. With the facilitation and structure from the LTP we were able to do this. The program got us talking about things we otherwise wouldn't have and focused on identifying what needed to be changed and addressed.

I absolutely recommend Leadership Transitions. It helped us get back on track more quickly than what would have happened without the help of the program. Ultimately it effects the bottom line for the company."

Testimonial from Cynthia Karuri-Kropac, Director - Operations, Solutions Engineering & Architecture, Business Solutions, AT&T Mobility Services

The Leadership Transition Program helped me gain knowledge about the people in my organization and the way they did business in a quicker manner than if I would have had to do so organically over time. As part of a merged entity, I was joining a new side of the business and the way things were done was different from where I had come from.

Through the Dialogue™ application my new direct reports anonymously responded to questions, gave input to challenges not being addressed and insight to where I should focus my energy. It would have been difficult to get this information without this process as early as I did before I’d had a chance to get better acquainted with my team. The Transition program helped me hit the ground running faster than if I'd had to do this through osmosis.

I've been in positions in the past where leaders did not fully understand their organization and how to best help their team be successful. Having read the feedback from my direct reports, I was able to ask better questions where I needed to understand more, determine which issues were "across the board" vs. pocket issues and to concentrate my efforts to where I could best add value to the organization.

I would use this program again and recommend it to others.