YOUR NEW COMPANY'S PEOPLE PRACTICE: HAVE YOU CHECKED THIS OUT?
You are a senior executive with the prospect of moving to a new company. Your headhunter has flattered you over dinner, and you have had some positive and friendly chats with the MD and other members of the senior team. You are tempted by the potential and by the share options. You are told you will be expected and empowered to make changes. The grass does seem greener.
If you were acquiring a target company you would ensure a due diligence processes was carried out. Now is the time to do the same - for your personal future. There are now guidelines and a checklist on some key points that you might want to check, based on RLT Associates' experience of good practice and senior career counselling in the last two years. Choose the ones that are important to you.
Discount the flattery and selling. If you don't get satisfactory answers to the key points, you are at risk. Accepting an offer without careful checking could mean that you become yet another new executive who leaves prematurely because the new company is not quite what you thought…
The checklist has five main sections:
1 The recruitment process and your role
2 The new company's strategy/ organisation; your accountabilities
3 Training and Development
4 Your rewards
5 Staff relations
There are about 40 points to check.
For your free copy of this note, please call 01799 520823 or email roy@rltassociates.com.