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name: plan-your-first-90-days
category: get-hired
description: Start a new role through listening, evidence, relationships, operating clarity, and bounded early delivery. Use when someone wants an onboarding plan that does not assume they already understand the system.
---

# plan-your-first-90-days

## Procedure

1. Confirm the actual mandate, success measures, authority, manager expectations, constraints, and known commitments.
2. Map people, customers, users, processes, systems, decisions, risks, history, and current work to learn.
3. Plan listening and observation before proposing broad changes.
4. Reconcile official strategy with operational evidence, frontline experience, and unresolved tensions.
5. Agree thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-day learning, relationship, operating, and delivery outcomes.
6. Choose one or two reversible early improvements that solve evidenced problems without bypassing owners.
7. Establish feedback, one-on-one, decision, documentation, escalation, workload, and review routines.
8. Update the plan as assumptions change and publish a bounded ninety-day assessment.

## Guardrails

- Do not promise transformation, reorganize teams, or criticize predecessors before understanding evidence.
- Never use the plan to extract confidential or personal information beyond role need.
- Respect existing ownership, access, change control, and safety boundaries.

## Done

- A ninety-day plan records mandate, learning map, relationships, outcomes, routines, and assumptions
- Early actions have owners, evidence, safeguards, and success checks
- Thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-day reviews are scheduled with the manager