What's the most important thing new employees can do to ensure success in their new role?

A couple years back, I wrote an article on this from the perspective of an IT Management role.

Here are the key points:

-- Assess the Environment
-- Associate and Communicate
-- Make Minor Adjustments
-- Establish Processes & Procedures
-- Set Initial Targets & Goals
-- Deliver Simple Accomplishments
-- Refine Your Methodology
-- Deliver First Medium-Sized Accomplishment

The full document: http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/archive/2010/02/11/charting-the-right-course-the-...

-ASB: http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker

I wrote an article on this exact topic in my career advice blog. It's called Starting a New Job - Six Tips for the first 90 days. Here is the short version of it. See the full version here. http://bemycareercoach.com/22/soft-skills/starting-a-new-job.html

If you just got a new job, congratulations! This is a tough market, so getting a job is definitely an achievement. Now another type of work begins. The first 90 days on the job is critical to building a strong foundation for success at your new company. You may say, what do you mean? I know how to work. I would say I am sure you do but starting a new job involves more than just hard work.

Starting a new job also needs to include implementing a jump-start plan that helps shape key people’s first impression of you. First impression is key because once they have that impression (either positive or negative), it will become your reputation. That reputation is hard to change unless you do something drastic later on. Here are six tips on how build a great reputation in the first 90 days of a starting a new job.

1. Determine what kind of reputation you want to build: Ask yourself what you should be known for? What qualities are the most critical for success in this job?
2. Know who are the “key people” in this company that should have a good impression of you. Obviously this includes your boss, but there are many more.
3. Spot situations in your job that builds your reputation: In the first 90 days of starting a new job, whatever you need to deliver for your job, hit it out of the park even if you have to work extra hours. On top of that, spot opportunities to help before you are asked.
4. Connect with “key people” - schedule “meet and greet” (lunch, coffee break, short meetings) with each person separately so they know who you are. Figure out whether there is a need to do a regular meeting with them depending on their preference and your job. Everyone appreciates a proactive person.
5. Get to know your bosses working style - as important as it is to build a good reputation with all “key people” when starting a new job, your boss is probably still the most important as he/she controls much of your promotion, evaluation, etc..
6. Spend time to get up to speed with all the context: This means not only understand your role and what you need to do, but also understand key histories of decisions and any related information or departments that affect your job. Ask lots of questions.

Obviously, I don’t mean that you can slack off after the first 90 days of starting a new job, but once you build a good reputation, you just created some room for yourself to protect against any mistakes you may make in the future. I hope these simple but critical tips will help you jump-start your job success. I look forward to your comments. I am always in your corner.

Spend your valuable time in developing the plan for the accomplishment of companies goals, develop strategy, implement it, always try to make SWOT analysis. engage with the members of top management. try to give the smart idea. Make policy to run business cost effectively and efficiently.

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Figure out what you boss thinks is important and than do it.

Pay attention to the unwritten rules. Every organization has unspoken expectations and rules of culture that need to be discovered, learned and navigated before the corporate ladder climb can commence in earnest. Do people leave work at 5 o’clock sharp or is that a slow form of political suicide? Is it customary for executives to consume lunch at their desk while powering through proposal drafts or more common for small groups of three to five to bond over salads and sandwiches? Is it ok to fraternize with employees a couple of rungs lower on the org chart or is that an unspoken taboo? Your ability to influence within your organization can grow or take a hit depending on how well you heed the unwritten rules of workplace behavior. Over time, this sort of thing becomes second nature to most, an adopted basic level of workplace being. Newly arrived hires need only look to their peers and immediate supervisors for clues and behavioral examples, and in most cases those same folks are looking back at you to see if you’re paying attention.

More on this in my book, 360 Degrees of Influence (McGraw-Hill 2011): http://amzn.to/w7tpap

First, learn the necessities as soon as possible...
the system, the people involved in your job, and so forth.

Second, discover ways to improve your job flow.

Third, help your people, suppliers and customers
bring out their concerns and suggestions.

Fourth, look at the big picture and how
everybody's goals could pump it up.

These are just simple truths that could certainly
be developed and added on towards
company achievement and people satisfaction.

This is @TheGreatLight.