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The 90-day plan for people managers who'd rather get it right than look right.
Field Notes for New Managers — what to do on a Tuesday afternoon when someone from finance just sent you a passive-aggressive email and your 1:1 with your former peer starts in nine minutes.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
A month-by-month plan
Listen, build trust, set direction — in that order, on purpose.
A 1:1 question library
15 questions across 4 themes, designed to rotate weekly so 1:1s stop being stand-ups in disguise.
The SBI feedback script
Three sentences. In private. Then stop talking and let them respond.
A 90-day reflection page
Ten honest questions. Best done with a coffee on a quiet Sunday.
A printable pocket reference
Six lines to pin next to your monitor. Read the top three on Monday morning.
Free. PDF. No upsell. Built for first-time people managers — six months in or less.
“If you're avoiding a conversation, that is the conversation.”
— from Field Notes for New Managers
Year one of management is the hardest year of your career so far. It's also the most consequential.