The first 100 days of a manager at the head of a new team are crucial: he must not only establish his credibility with employees who are sometimes reluctant to change, but also involve them in his new project and implement his action plan.

By taking the lead of a new team, the manager has a few weeks to build the foundations of a sustainably effective leadership. “The manager must be curious and look for information beforehand. He must question the specificities of the job of his future employees, their past results and the difficulties they encounter.

Showing that you are informed of the current context is important to gain their trust,” says Rémi Juët, a management consultant.

1. Discover your new environment
When a manager arrives in a new position, there are two essential points that should not be neglected: knowing how to observe and knowing how to listen. Indeed, this period is essential to take a step back, to apprehend the situation with a new perspective, to understand the culture and the interactions between each other in order to avoid mistakes.

2. Be yourself
There is no point in trying to put on a costume, a posture or values that do not resemble you. It is by staying true to yourself and to the management principles that drive you that you will succeed in generating the support and trust of your teams. Your curiosity and openness to the experiences of others should allow you to build lasting relationships. Start by looking at your “who” before your “what” and “where.” “Often, the central obstacle lies neither in the structure nor in the internal processes, and even less in the desire shown by each person to do well at a given time, but in the profile of employees and managers, in this alchemy of values that could eventually drive them. As employees or managers as we are, we do not inoculate ourselves with new values according to circumstances, we share them or not,” says Stéphane Flahaut, consultant, in L’entreprise humaniste.