How Do You Make Immediate Impact in Your New Role?

Whether it's a promotion within the existing business or a role with a new employer,  you want to make that immediate and positive,  impact!

To prove they made the right decision but moreso to show why you're deserving of it.

So how do you go about getting that endorsement?

Firstly it's not about saying how great you ate, what you've done before or what qualifications you have. That was all back at the interview!

Now it's about putting all those aspects into tangible , visible action.

So let's start at the beginning and accept it is a period of reset. You're new to the role remember.

First off, find out who your key stakeholders are. Those you need to impress, deliver for and build relationships.

Not just within your own area but wider across the whole business. And don't forget the external ones ; customers,  suppliers,  investors,  they all play a part.

Next it's setting out a plan of action. One addressing the disciplines of the role but quickly going into strategic mode.

What will you bring to the role that makes it more valuable to the organisation? Think in terms of return on investment.

How valuable is that role on the grand scale of things , compared to where it could be with you?

The plan for this has got go be aligned to the business objectives of performance growth,  sat alongside cost control and value.

Knowing what these factors are at the higher level , enables you to build feeder routes.

How can you increase sales, revenues and margins?

How will you increase shareholder value?

How will you improve free cash flow?

How can you reduce costs?

What will you do to increase per head of resource margin contribution?

How will you increase productivity output abd support growth aspirations?

All questions the executives of every business ask themselves every day.

They cannot do on their own, they depend on high performing individuals and where they have them, they'll reward to keep in the organisation!

And these are the questions you need to ask yourself. How can you make a contribution to these?

Not just by doing your job but proactively creating plans of action to directly address. Succeeding in this will , with you communicating clearly upwards with results, gain attention.

Your role may suddenly take on a more meaningful shape to the business because of you.

In effect you are no longer in a role, you are the role!

Defining a new aspect to your department and business. Showing through results that you're worth investing in. A critical resource to the business.

Think about in these terms,  if you can increase contribution by say 30% if your area, what would that translate to in a bigger role across the company.

You could ask the question. Alternatively you could do your own investigations and build a plan to present, which gives the answer.

What executive with influence and who could gain advantage wouldn't listen to that?

And so you have the beginnings of your new progress trajectory.