A New Role….Now what?

If you have recently moved into a new role either in your current organisation or in a new organisation, these tips will help keep you focused and maintain your confidence.
There are a number of challenges facing you in your new role, these include:

• managing your transition,
• managing your team,
• building your structure
• extending your influence.
• Making an impact!

It is necessary for you to take time out to reflect on the progress to date, the performance of your team and also your own performance. Making time to stand back is essential, do this in on a weekly basis, take 30 minutes out at the start or the end of the week for this reflection.

Although you may be in a very different environment from your previous role, it is important that you set yourself some manageable goals to achieve over the next six months. It is also useful to set a personal vision for your function or business and also to stand back and take stock on where everything is. Consider the following questions:
How do you want your business to be perceived?

• What are the behaviours you want exhibited in your team?
• Do members of your team know what that vision is and those standards of behaviour? If not you should ensure that you communicate them.
• Does your team know the progress that has been made? Maybe take some time out to reflect upon those successes.
• Are the roles clearly defined in your unit now and when the new structure is developed?
• What are the barriers to achieving success?
• Do you have plans in place to bridge those barriers?

One final piece of advice – Maintain an achievements log and reflect on a regular basis the progress that you make.