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Ask questions (right time, clever twist, great insights)

Build trust among your leadership by finding ways to help them, put their needs before your own to start. How can you make their day to day a bit easier to build that bridge.

If it only takes a few minutes, do it now!

Make sure you understand all the stakeholders!

Never use your executive's name to get a desired outcome.

Automate everything - Microsoft Flow, Zapier... makes you look awesome + superpowers efficiency!

Schedule 1-1s with everyone on the team early on, it goes a long way towards building trust.

Not sure yet! I'll share as soon as I figure that out!

Be your own boss. Hold yourself accountable for delivering excellence and defining your standards.

Overcommunication early on is key!

Focus on maintaining breadth rather than depth

Draft a plan for your first 30/60/90 days and make sure your team is aligned with your plan

Prioritise important over urgent work for greater impact (and hire to elevate not delegate)

Never let them see you sweat, maintain a smile and calm/positive demeanor

Context is king. Make sure to create a communication loop that allows you to connect the dots.

Lead through buy-in creation instead of authority.

Never underestimate the value of connectedness.

Make friends with Or executives admin early on, and learn about your exec’s work style

Be a good listener, make everyone feel comfortable and accountable

regularly chat w/ management, whether formally or informally, to get to know all pain points

building trust with the executive team is ciritial for success

Leverage your network to seek input on projects from various people to get to the best solution

Important: good relationships w your execs. Even more important: good relationship w their deputies

Process, process, process. Organization and agility are key.

If you’re seeing a gap, step up and do your best to fill it.

Remain courageous through all interactions - this can mean being vulnerable

I have only just started, but already I recognize the importance of accurate planning

Seek first to understand

Your team is everything - ask them what they want more often

Send out an agenda to every meeting, no matter how small

Get good at "farming"! You need to build scale by learning how to farm work from the organization.

Protect your thinking time.

Be the most nimble, flexible and open to change leader in the room.

Make peace with an undefined role

Use objective criteria/data to explain actions and manage negotiations with clients/staff

When joining a new company, meet with employees to understand the org before making any changes.

Too new to role to be giving pro tips.

Never assume alignment. Ask explicit questions.

I have a daily pipeline email with my leader and highlight updates accordingly

Outlining the remit of the role clearly at the start

Be willing to adjust your style & responsibilities to help your CEO in whatever way possible!

Be organized AF. Monitor the emotional level of the conversation and use that to ask good questions.

Only a few weeks in but have the team build their "User Manuals!" Very insightful!

Never stop being curious - dig into how every single thing works - in order to build the credibility and knowledge you need to advise.

Connect with all levels of leadership through the organization on a constant basis

Build trust fast through being humble and fast in your work ethic.

Always seek to understand first.

Build a rapport with everyone on your team, or with someone at each level in your company.

Always assume best intentions (and make that clear)

The To-Do List/Waiting List combination provides me with the security of knowing what I need to do and what I need others to do for me.

Ego has no place here - develop a passion for anonymity.

Be the source of truth - Know every important company metric daily, and watch your influence rise.

Speak up, give your opinion, and become a sounding board for your CEO.

I’ll have more insight soon enough, but for now I’ll say: be open-minded, direct, and learn fast

Listen to understand, not to respond!

Daily syncs with principal are critical

Create, maintain, refine: create a system, maintain your system, refine your system.

Be agile and proactive

Only 1 month in so still trying to figure it out, but having a task list with the following has been extremely helpful for me thus far: 1. item 2. description 3. notes 4. hyperlinks 5. next follow up dates 6. next follow up step

Patience... has been useful for me. Observing opportunities and letting them emerge organically.

Be as transparent as possible and ruthless in prioritization.