Erika Andersen We’ve all seen it: a successful employee promoted to manager is given no training and essentially pushed into the deep end and told to swim? According to Andersen, this approach to creating new managers is epidemic. Using an accessible gardening metaphor, Andersen, founder of Proteus International, contends that new managers must have a support system available to train them, while on the job, to become successful managers.

About the author:
Erika Andersen has developed a reputation for creating learning and change processes and programs uniquely tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture. She and her colleagues at Proteus International, the company she founded in 1990, offer practical methods and skills for individuals, teams, and organizations to clarify and move toward their hoped-for-future.

Much of Erika’s recent work has focused on organizational visioning and strategy, executive coaching, and management and leadership development. She has served as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and top executives of corporations like GE, MTV Networks, NBC Universal, Comcast, Union Square Hospitality Group, CBS, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Madison Square Garden.

Her first book, Growing Great Employees, was published by Portfolio in 2007. Her latest book, Being Strategic: Plan for Success; Out-Think Your Competitors; Stay Ahead of Change, was published in May of 2009 by St. Martins Press. You can keep up with Erika on her blog, The Simplest Thing That Works.