In everyone’s workplace world…leaders, co-workers, colleagues and just job-related friends come and go throughout the years.  The circumstances for their job or career change can vary from family concerns…to physically moving to a new area…or a different job that maybe has a huge salary increase!  But no matter the change…The Challenge of Starting Over is often a confusing, time-demanding and difficult transition for many.

In my experiences, The Challenge of Starting Over with new leadership personnel has often delayed or negatively impacted the establishment of mutual priorities for organizational development, need to maintain a high level of momentum with regard to actions/events/projects currently in play and the creation of a new/altered method of quality/timely communication.  As you can see all three of these actions do not progressively improve over-night and not without the appropriate amount of professional nurturing.  Therefore, it is necessary to step-back and as a leader take a high-level assessment of the entire Starting Over situation and adopt a co-equal methodology for moving forward together!

Simple, straight-forward actions may include:

• Automatically sharing operational messages to help understanding of product/service plans.
• Take the initiative to invite the new leader to moving forward style meetings.\
• If not co-located…visit them at their office/place-of-major-business.
• Make phone calls and in-person visits your primary method of communication at first.
• Offer a list of YOUR principle network of leaders for them to be aware of.
• Be sure to promote INCLUSION as a priority to your current-co-workers to set an example of “openness” for information.

The Challenge of Starting Over will only be harder and become more difficult if you ignore it.