Congratulations on your new executive role!
The first days and weeks in an executive role are crucial: impressions are formed, rapport is built, and insights leading to action plans start to take shape.
Quickly get up to speed on your new team’s goals and capabilities while developing an action plan for long-term success.
We’ve built out a six-part framework to set new executives up well:
Customer & Success Criteria
Strategy & Goals
Structure & Processes
Financials & Risk Management
People & Roles
Communication & Alignment
Access a printable one-pager with questions to cover in your first 90 days in an executive role:
Stepping into a new C-Suite role is never easy. But you don’t have to do it alone.
If you want a free consultation on laying a solid foundation for enduring success, schedule time with our CEO, Michael Daehne. He’ll share more details on working through these questions, as well as templates and best practices.
At FlexPoint Consulting, we help clients envision, plan, and deliver business transformation.
We consult a bit differently than most of our peers: we want to make you the hero of the story. We’ll enable you to succeed in the immediate effort and equip you to apply learnings to future efforts, with our support as needed.
We helped a new AgTech CIO reset and level up an IT team that was lacking accountability, clarity of roles and responsibilities, and project delivery discipline.
Click on the above graphic to read more of the client success story.
The technology team leveled up their team performance and delivered better outcomes for customers. This included:
Increased customer collaboration and trust almost immediately with new operating model
Materially increased project delivery rigor (on-time, on-budget, high quality) within a quarter
Placed the right lieutenants in the right roles to drive team performance
Outcomes
The new CIO worked with FlexPoint Consulting to:
Quickly assess all aspects of current state IT organization, including people, process, and tools
Rapidly create near-term and long-term action plans to increase accountability, clarity of scope, and delivery discipline
Develop target operating model and portfolio-oriented org design to maximize customer collaboration and delivery accountability
Communicate org changes and overall technology strategy to CEO, peers, and broader organization
Roll out new processes and delivery mechanisms (demand management, intake, project management, time-tracking, etc.)