Your First 6 Months
Getting the job is one thing. Keeping it, and making it work for you is another.
Most new hires focus on doing the job well. The people around them are assessing something different. This course covers what your new employer is actually watching for in the first ninety days, how to build the right relationships from week one, how to deliver early wins without overplaying your hand, and how to own your probation review rather than just survive it.
Four lessons. Each one covers a stage of the first ninety days that most people leave to chance.
- Understand the three things being assessed during your probation period and why competence is only the starting point of what your employer is looking for.
- Learn why your manager is not just assessing you but managing their own risk and how understanding that changes how you show up from day one.
- Map the four groups of people who influence whether you pass probation, including the ones most new hires never invest in until it is too late.
- Apply the “listen, understand, contribute” sequence that consistently produces the strongest starts and learn why inverting it is the most common new hire mistake.
- Identify the difference between contributing to the work and performing for an audience and why the people around you can feel that difference immediately.
- Prepare for and own your probation review using a specific self-assessment framework, including the one question that consistently changes how that conversation ends.
How you start in a new role sets the terms of the relationship you will have with that organisation for as long as you are there. The impressions formed in the first ninety days are slow to shift and quick to form.
The ability to read a new environment before you act in it, to invest in the right relationships early, to contribute before you try to change things and to manage a performance conversation with confidence rather than anxiety, are skills that apply every time you move.
And you will move. Every time you do, the approach in this course applies again. Build it properly once and carry it forward.