Be the CEO of your Career
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Here's to good coffee and how you should become the CEO of your own career. Hi, I'm Mary Fain Brandt.I'm a career coach and LinkedIn strategist bringing you tips every week on things that you should be doing to accelerate your career. Get ready for a career change or get ready to start your own business. What's the one thing that really successful people do in the first 90 days of getting hired?
The people that land all those promotions, get promoted within the first 90 days, or they get a raise. They are on the ladder of moving up, and you're wondering, what are they doing so differently that they're getting the great projects, they're getting recognition from the boss, and they're getting promotions so quickly. I'm here to let you in on what their secret sauce is. Here's what you need to do the first 90 days when you're starting a new job. Number one, getting the name and email of every single person that you're likely to come in contact with can really make an impact on your ability to grow in those first 90 days.
You want people to know who you are and the value that you bring, but first you have to learn their names and what value they bring. We're talking about everyone from teams, heads of departments, the HR, the accounting, the CEO, and all the movers and shakers within the organization. Next, you need to send every single person the following message. You need to introduce yourself, and what you're bringing to the table. Ask them if they have time for a coffee, virtual or in person.
But more importantly, you want to ask them how you can support them, and offer value. Ask them, what are you and your team working on? If you could wave a magic wand and have our team do one thing to make your life easier, what would that be? What's your best piece of advice for someone brand new here? I love this question.
You know what? Keep a Google sheet. You got to track all this who says what, who set up a meeting. You really want to hit it hard that first 90 days. Now, what you don't want to do is implement or suggest a bunch of changes.
Your job for the first 90 days is to listen carefully to everybody in the office, from the front desk person to the HR to accounting to marketing to the CEO. You want to get a sense of where everyone's pain point is so that you can help them. You want to get a sense of what the culture is, but you don't want to suggest a bunch of changes. Go ahead and jot down all those ideas that are circling in your head in a little book or a Google Doc. So when you do meet with your supervisor, you can whip out your little notebook and say, hey, as I've been meeting with people and understanding where their frustrations are, I jotted down a couple of ideas that might streamline the process.
Okay, so that's what you want to do in your first 90 days. You want to listen, you want to learn, and you want to meet with as many people as you can to understand how you can support them. You want to get your name and your face in front of the key players. Focus on social, solving their problems first. And you'll create a friend that will help you when the right opportunities pop up.
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