First week completed!
What do you want to achieve into your second week as the new team leader?
I recommend three activities to achieve:
Schedule and complete 1:1 meetings with all your team members - what are they working on to achieve the current team’s strategy?
Strategy time - create your plan to achieve your strategy. What unique authentic approach do you bring to the role? (Remember, you got this role being who you are.)
Schedule a Strategy Review meeting with your team leader/manager/CEO to confirm that this plan will achieve the overall organisational strategy.
Keep focused - aim to achieve three critical activities in your second week in your new role.
Record information about your people - Vital for Relationship Building
In preparing for your 1:1 sessions, determine how you record your information. Will you write notes, will you seek permission for an audio recording or is your memory 100% full proof. These initial conversations are vital to fast-track your relationships.
BUILD YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE
I recommend the use of Relationship Intelligence data.
Using people profile data identifies what’s important to your people.
I use CoreStrengths - it gives me a profile of each person & the whole team. This image captures 30 people - I can immediately understand how each person is different, yet see groups of people with similar values.
I want to know what they’re concerned about most, what triggers conflict and what’s their choice of strengths in the workplace.
Some people don’t know this data about themselves, so it’s of value to provide professional development by having all members complete this tool and the learning which accompanies the tool.
Here’s a link to CoreStrengths which I”m certified in as a Facilitator.
BUILDING TRUST
People will join you and what you stand for if they trust you. The question is - will these new people in your life trust you?
They will trust you if you make time to get to know them and take an interest in what they do and their performance in what they do.
Enjoy these days as you complete your second week in the role. At the end of each day - consider what you’ve done and how it’s added value to your onboarding and to the people who you are leading.
Get in contact with me to learn about my Overnight Leadership Program.