New Manager Transition Kit

Promotion is a different job, not a higher grade — and the old one has to be given away out loud, to a named person, on a date.

What it is

The most common promotion in business, and the one most often handled with an email and a shrug. Converts an individual contributor into a manager deliberately: the old job given away to named people on dates, the authority written down, the hard first conversations scripted, the operating rhythm installed in week one, and a ninety-day watch aimed at the four failures that sink first-time managers. For the employer to give — founders, HR leads and any manager promoting someone who was, last month, one of the team.

What you receive

the promotion from doing the work to being responsible for it, handled — the stop list of what the new manager gives up and who receives it, the authority put in writing, the first conversations in fixed order including the internal candidate passed over and the friend who is now a report, the one-to-one and delegation structure with published decision rights, and the ninety-day checkpoints that catch the four classic failures early

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

• “just promoted to manage my former teammates what do I say”
• “someone on my team applied for my job and did not get it script”
• “how to stop doing the work myself after being promoted to manager”
• “first time manager 90 day plan we can give a new team lead”
• “first one to one structure with a report I used to sit next to”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.