FastTrack Managing

Helping New Senior Staff Succeed  

Many senior managers who are new to an organization are under a lot of pressure to produce quick results.  Part of their success is linked to how fast they get to know their staff, including what is working well and what might need improvement.  Knowing this information sooner rather than later can increase the new senior manager's likelihood of success. Unfortunately, this information is often learned haphazardly in bits and pieces over several months, resulting in missed opportunities.

To help these new senior managers learn quickly and head off problems later, Mark uses FastTrack Managing, which is a simple and cost-effective process he's developed that substantially shortens the time for them to get up to speed and produce results.  

This process not only helps the new senior manager quickly learn about how things are working, it also enables staff to share their insights and ideas with their new manager. Clients for whom Mark has done this work tell him that it has been an effective and efficient process.  

New Senior Staff Who Use FastTrack Managing Will:

• Identify more quickly staff members' strengths.
  
• Help their staff bring important issues to the forefront.
  
• Help staff communicate with each other more effectively.
  
• Help staff overcome barriers that may be preventing them from working as an effective team.
  
• Show staff that they are interested in their success and the organization's success.
  
• Learn more valuable information than if the new senior manager conducts the interviews and facilitates the meeting on his or her own.
  
• Decrease the likelihood that they will make costly mistakes.
  
• Realize a substantial return on their investment.

Here's How FastTrack Managing Works :

• Mark interviews staff members confidentially for about 45 minutes each, to learn what is working well and what could be improved.
  
• He reviews what is learned in the interviews and in a meeting meeting with the new senior manager and his/her staff, he provides a summary of what he heard. Staff and the senior manager discuss those ideas and concerns.
  
• Participants target areas for further development and discuss follow-up strategies that may include goal-setting.
  

Mark Sachs
705 McNeill Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone 301-588-3858
mark@markasachs.com