Experts Connection™ connects you, the business professional, with experts in career and professional development via teleseminars. Topics will be presented with an eye to the practical, rather than the theoretical, offering you the opportunity to put ideas into practice as soon as you hang up the phone. The topics are targeted specifically for the executive level professional, for the employed as well as those in transition. The teleseminars are formatted and timed to include your questions following the experts' presentations.

Congratulations! You Got the Job.

Now what?

Guest Speaker: Thuy Sindell, Ph.D.
Author of Sink or Swim: New Job. New Boss.
12 Weeks to Get it Right.
Co-founder of Hit the Ground Running, a software
training company. Leadership coach for Mariposa
Leadership.

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Time: 4:00-5:00PM EDT, 1:00-2:00PM PDT

Executives can plan on having 10 to 12 jobs and change industries or functions two to three times over a 40 year career. Of those executives brought into an organization from the “outside”, 47% don’t make it through their first year. What can you do to ensure that you are effectively integrating yourself into your new company and role? What can you do to ensure your success and that of your team?

This teleseminar is designed to help you as a new hire increase your time to productivity and success within your organization. If you are an executive with new hires coming on board, this teleseminar will provide you with guidance to ensure your new hires are off to the right start.

Key Things You Will Learn. In this one hour with Thuy you will learn to:

• Identify and avoid pitfalls that keep you on the winning side of the statistics.
• Adapt a 100% accountability mindset and behaviors to ensure success.
• Integrate the 5 “Sink or Swim” skills into your repertoire.
• Use our checklist to help you quickly decipher the culture of your new company.
• Support others on your team to effectively integrate.