Leadership & Retention
Senior hires fail at an alarming rate, and it is usually decided early. Altavise runs a structured new-leader assimilation that accelerates trust with the team, surfaces expectations on both sides fast, and coaches the leader through the first 90 days that make or break the hire.
Why it matters
A new leader inherits a team that is watching, wary, and full of unspoken expectations. Left alone, small early missteps harden into a trust deficit that is hard to recover. And a failed senior hire is enormously expensive: the search, the severance, and the year the team spent in limbo.
Assimilation de-risks it. We create a fast, structured way for the leader and the team to align on expectations, working styles, and priorities in the first weeks, and coach the leader through the moments that set the tone, so the hire lands instead of drifts.
What it includes
Outcomes
The team buys in early instead of spending months holding back and testing the new leader. Trust built in the first weeks compounds for the rest of the tenure.
Coaching through the decisions that set the tone keeps small, avoidable missteps from hardening into a reputation. The first ninety days are where those impressions get made.
You de-risk the enormous cost of a failed senior hire: the search, the severance, and the year the team spent in limbo. Assimilation is cheap insurance on an expensive bet.
Questions
Ideally in the first two to three weeks. The earlier the better, before impressions harden.
It is focused coaching for a specific, high-stakes window, plus a team session. It can extend into ongoing coaching if useful.
Yes. Someone promoted to lead former peers faces the same assimilation challenge, often harder.
A fixed package for the assimilation and first-90-days coaching.
Bringing in a leader?
Tell us about the role and the team, and we will scope an assimilation.
Set up an assimilation