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The first 100 days

Personal changes result from the search for new challenges, the getaway from unwanted tasks or simply due to organizational change. Everybody is affected. People, who take over the responsibility for a team, a new department or a new company, ask regularly, how to start the new task – especially within the first 100 days.

100 Tage Radar

By far the most important thing is to suppress the urge of wanting to act immediately. On the one side, before the start the overview of the new area is missing, even with best preparation. On the other side, the employees, partners and other stakeholders expect that the new boss introduces as a start her-/himself and have them explain the current circumstances. Blind actionism leads to unsustainable results. It prevents the opportunity to become familiar to the new task and creates even resistance. It would be a mistake to assume that this time might be wasted. Quite the contrary. This radar provides insights in the first three months that will help in the long term to fulfill the new tasks. The following activities require full attention.

1)       Identifying the expectations of the stakeholders
These internal and external stakeholders influence the new tasks. The best solution is to create a list of the stakeholders to ensure that nobody will be forgotten. Expectations are then discussed in personal dialogues. This creates at an early stage a relationship that will be an advantage in the future for both sides.

2)       Describe the business model
Each team, department and company has a business model (including the deliverable concept, the earning model, the value creation process, the involved network of people and organizations, the resources, as well as the communication and the coordination). The first 100 days will potentially be the last opportunity for performing a walkthrough of the business model.

3)       Plan the communication
The structuring of the internal and external reconciliation and exchange of information has a huge influence on the results of the following months. For this purpose, respective measures should be planned (i.e. what, with whom, how, at which frequency will be communicated) that cover all channels – publications, events and regular meetings with superiors, employees and partners.

The basis for accomplishing the new task during the following months and years is created within the first 100 days.

Support for the first 100 days you find here: First100.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

The mirror on the wall does not bring the substantial characteristics to light, because the self-image only becomes incompletely visible in a mirror. There are the soft factors that describe the nature of a person or a group of people. These can only be grasped or observed with difficulties. In addition, they are mostly processed unconsciously – if you meet someone for the first time, or look at the person intuitively or spend time with its publications. The explicit format of the self-image is the today’s form of the mirror on the wall. Thus, you describe your own traits and those of other persons and groups.

Selbstbild

These soft aspects of the Corporate Identity determine the social interaction with a target group and the co-operation within your own team.

Look at the target group in its environment. This provides indications of the convictions, the actual distribution of tasks and the affinity with a cultural system. The attributes can be determined in more detail by looking at publications and meetings.

The self-image is the basis for approaching the target group. By preparing the exchange of information, you avoid statements that contradict the attitudes of the audience. The detected traits and habits facilitate a more accurate formulation of your messages.

The mirror on the wall that is extended by the elements of the self-image provides the framework for a common self-understanding that fosters the social cohesion and co-operation.

Bottom line:Interaction within the own area and with others requires good expressions in words and pictures of your own character as well as the personality of counterparts.The self-image facilitates the description of the profiles.

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