First Ninety Days Entry Plan
Ninety days is not a grace period — it is the window in which your reputation sets, and it sets whether or not you were paying attention.
What it is
The entry plan for someone who has already won the job and now has to survive it: the intake that tells you what the job actually is, who to see and in what order, the questions that make people tell you what is really broken, the discipline of proposing nothing for three weeks, the boss conversation that fixes success criteria in writing, and two early wins chosen for what they signal. For the person entering the role — first-time manager, lateral hire, director dropped into a function they did not build.
What you receive
your first ninety days in a new role planned as a campaign — the situation diagnosis, the stakeholder map and the listening-tour question set, the written diagnosis you owe yourself by day 30, two early wins chosen for signal rather than size, the expectations conversation with your boss set down on paper, and the dated commitments that turn a good start into a secured position
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “first 90 days in a new job plan”
- “new manager first month what to do”
- “30 60 90 day plan template for a new role”
- “how to make an impact in a new job without stepping on toes”
- “questions to ask stakeholders when starting a new role”
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