Changing Roles offers business professionals the tips and tools to successfully navigate transitions, making the adjustment to their new role easier for themselves and others. Although most books on transitions focus solely on the development of new leadership skills, Changing Roles also explores other elements critical to making successful transitions: recognizing the phases of change, shifting your mind set and orientation, enhancing your support network, establishing new routines, and understanding that a real transition doesn’t happen overnight.

Changing Roles first describes the reasons why people fail to make transitions effectively, and then outlines the key steps to help them build and leverage the mind set, skill set, routines, and support that will position them for success. Readers will benefit from practical techniques that teach them to find support and gain valuable feedback from others. With this indispensable guide, professionals in all industries will assume new responsibilities quickly and capably.