Executive Onboarding

Executive Onboarding
the team that all questions will have your attention in the days to
come.
Moving on, the first 30 days should primarily be devoted to
listening and learning, and diagnosing the organization and the
company – concurrently building personal credibility:
1. Build a learning platform.
2. Diagnose the organization/company.
2.3.1.1 Building a Learning Platform
Many leaders transitioning into a new position have a compulsive
need to take action right away. They want to demonstrate
decisiveness and the ability to make a difference from the start.
Moreover, needing to start learning again can fuel feelings of
incompetence, inferiority and vulnerability, so in order to
reinforce feelings of self-worth, many leaders exit the learning
phase much too soon, rather than appreciating the value of
expanding one’s repertoire of insights.
Now it is time to ask the organization - preferably the earlier
mentioned 3% that can move 80-90% of the organization (i.e. the
key influencers, connectors and brokers in the organization) to
help you dig deeper into the earlier mentioned six Cs: customers,
collaborators, capabilities, competitors, capital and conditions:
Customers: Ask questions in order to get a full overview of the
customer base (e.g. distributors, dealers, end-users, consumers,
key opinion leaders)
Collaborators: Ask questions in order to get a full overview of
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