First 90 Days

Acceleration Coaching™
Overview
Benefits of First 90 Days
Acceleration Coaching™

Cost Reduction and Increased Productivity

• Minimize derailment and subsequent replacement costs
• 25% - 40% reduction in “time to break-even” point
• Accelerates impact on business results
• Improves critical, early executive decision making
• Augment executive’s credibility
• Accelerated acquisition integration
• Increase retention of key talent
• Improve company reputation
• Enhance employee satisfaction

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 First 90 Days Coaching Results

• ROI >300%
• 1.5- to 3-month reduction in “time to break-even”
• 25% - 50% shorter transition time
• Substantial reduction in failure rate
Contribution

Typical
Transition
Value Created

Day 1
Start Date
-2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Value
Consumed Months after
start date
Months before
start date

Accelerated Transition Typical Transition

3.2 months to 6.2 months to
“break-even point” “break-even point”

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Coaching Outcomes

• Accelerate learning about unit’s key business

priorities
• Give critical insight into organizational culture
• Help leader identify and manage key individuals and
relationships
• Clarify expectations for success
• Work to set goals and structure a plan to achieve
early wins and long-term success

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Why Genesis Advisers’s Watkins Methodology?

• Developed by Dr. Michael D. Watkins: leading expert on

transitions and author of international best seller, The First 90
Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
• Unique Tools to assess and evaluate transitions coaching
• Since 1999 transitions has been our focus
• We work with your coaches or our experienced coaches with
business acumen and experience supporting C-suite executives
• Successful Track Record of support for executives through:
– Individual Coaching
– Executive Transition Workshops
– Programs for all levels and all delivery modalities
– Products based on one, unifying model

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First 90 Days Acceleration Coaching™ Features

Unique Solution Based on 10 Years of Honing Materials

• Transition Roadmap™ framework
• Acceleration Coaching Process
• Transition Risk Assessment™ tool
• Engagement evaluation process
Immediate Impact on Executive Performance
• Assessment of executive transition risk
• Definition of coaching scope based on need
• Interview-based situation report delivered to executive Day One
• Delivery designed to have large initial impact

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 The First 90 Days Transition Roadmap™

Diagnose the Situation

Define the Core Challenges
Business
situation Organizational Design the Plan
change
Performance challenge
Creating
expectations momentum

Types of Managing
transitions yourself
Personal
adaptive
Strengths & challenge
Weaknesses

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Acceleration Coaching Process Overview

Post‐Transition
Phase IV.
90 Days
Next 90 Days
Planning

60 Days Phase III.
Team Alignment 
The First 90 Days 
Transition
30 Days Phase II.
Direction Setting 

Day One           Situation Report/
(executive 
start date) Pre‐Entry Launch Meeting Phase I. 
Intensive
Situation  Personal  Diagnosis
Assessment Assessment
Start of 
Engagement

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 Engagement Evaluation Process

• Acceleration Coaching Evaluation Surveys

– Mid-Point
– End of Engagement
– Post Transition (Month 6)
• Objectives:
– Measure progress with coach
– Measure coaching experience overall
– Course correction
– Process improvement
– Measure outcomes and provide statistics

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