Thanks to Manager Tools for giving great advice through the interview process. Now that I have the new job, as I'm planning my 90 days(yes I have listened to the cast on the first 90 days and plan no new initiatives for that time) My question is around measuring the team I'll be taking over and understanding how the company perceives us. I would like to implement a survey to be sent out at the completion of the help-desk tickets that my support team is completing as well as send out a survey to those departments who leverage my development teams. It would greatly help me get a picture of where we stand with our internal customers and help me compose the plan for action after I've learned our processes and company post the 90 days. If I do this am I breaking the No New Initiatives rule?
Thanks for any insight
Does it matter if you break
Does it matter if you break the no new initiates rule?
It is horses for courses when it comes to management and it sounds like you have a good idea to measure work that will be useful to you in the coming months. Why wouldn’t you implement it now?
I agree that holding back for a couple of months when starting a new job is a good idea. Nobody wants to be the “new broom” that brings in policies, just to have them damped as a bad idea further down the line. But you shouldn’t stick to the no new initiates rule “regardless to loss of life”.