We all have made job transitions on some level during our lives.
What are good choices to make in your first 90 days at a new job?
I have entered a new workplace before and made healthy choices, but I have also made unhealthy choices. They both have consequences.
Michael Watkins helped me by laying out seven elements for successful transitions:
- Organize to learn: figure out what you most need to learn, from whom, and how you can best learn it.
- Establish A-list priorities: identify a few vital goals and pursue them relentlessly.
- Define strategic intent: develop and communicate a compelling mission and vision for what the organization will become.
- Build the leadership team: define your assessment criteria and evaluate the team you inherited.
- Lay the organizational foundation for success: identify the most important supporting changes you need to make in the structure, processes, and key talent bases of the organization.
- Secure early wins: build personal credibility and energize people by identifying centers of gravity and organizing the right set of initiatives where you can get some early successes.
- Create supportive alliances: understand who needs to champion your successes by identifying how the organization really works and who has influence.
*One element I might add inside “create supportive alliances” is to make champions out of others. People are not there just to serve our initiatives. Help meet each other’s needs. This is one area I found rewarding when I eventually learned how to do it.
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