The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 10Adjust and Advance Your Own Leadership, People, Practices, and Culture by Day 100

You have reached the 100‐day mark. You put a plan in place, leveraged your fuzzy front end to learn quickly, refined your plan, and developed solid relationships with all of your key stakeholders. You engaged the culture and made a strong early impression by delivering a clear message to your new audiences (up, down, and across). Your team is energized by its co‐created burning imperative. You have established a milestone management process to drive accountability and are beginning to deliver early wins. You've assessed your team and begun to realign it around the future needs of the business.

So, what's next? Keep adjusting. Keep advancing. You'll want to evolve in four key areas:

1. Your Leadership: The 100‐day mark is a good moment to gain feedback on your own leadership. You should take a moment and determine what you should keep, stop, and start doing to be even more effective with your direct report team and the organization as a whole.
2. People: Decide how you are going to evolve your people and related processes in line with changing circumstances.
3. Practices: Milestone Management, Long‐Term Planning, and Program Management: Assess whether you've been measuring the right things and have built adequate practices to develop and implement your plans.
4. Culture: Finally, after 100 days, ...