First 90 Days - Key Practices for New Job Success

Avoid common traps

Make waves of changeEstablish long-term goals

Focus on business priorities and behavioral changes

Define your A-team priorities

Secure early wins

Build credibility

Leverage “teachable moments”

Secure tangible results

Launch pilot projects

Elevate change agents

Avoid predictable surprises

Plan for 5 conversations (situational diagnosis, expectations, style, resources, and personal development)

Don’t trash the past

Don’t stay away

Don’t surprise your boss

Don’t approach your boss only with problems

Don’t run down your checklist

Don’t try to change the boss

Take 100% responsibility for making the relationship work

Clarity mutual expectations early and often

Negotiate timelines for diagnosis and action planning

Aim for early wins in areas important to the boss

Pursue good marks from those whose opinions your boss respects

Design organizational architecture (strategy, structure, systems, skills, and culture)

Identify misalignments (skills and strategy, systems and strategy, structure and systems)

Avoid common traps

Craft strategy