The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan (Hardcover, 2011)

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan – George Bradt

The first hundred days in a new leadership role can make or break your success. Studies and experience show that many new leaders fail to meet expectations within their first eighteen months, often because of mistakes made at the very start.

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, by executive onboarding experts George Bradt, Jayme A. Check and Jorge Pedraza, offers a proven, step-by-step framework to help leaders get off to the right start, whether they are joining a new company, being promoted from within or taking over a new team.

The book guides readers through each stage of the transition, beginning even before the first day. It shows how to understand the organization’s culture and stakeholders, how to make a strong first impression, how to set a clear direction, how to secure early wins and how to build a high-performing team by putting the right people in the right roles. The authors also explain how to avoid common traps, such as moving too fast or too slowly, and how to manage relationships with bosses, peers and direct reports.

Practical tools, checklists and templates make it easy to put the advice into action and to adapt it to different situations.

Clear and actionable, The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan is an invaluable resource for executives, managers, HR professionals and anyone stepping into a new leadership role who wants to take charge with confidence and deliver results quickly.