Help! Work not done

[TinyHouseFan]

I work in a big bank as a middle manager. I've been in the company 20 years with no issues and always good feedback and reviews.

I changed roles from an operations role to a policy role before Christmas. I spent the weeks before Christmas break reading and calling people on the wider team to introduce myself and get some info and background on the objectives.

From January, I've had plenty of time and space to get stuck in, but my kids were at home in January and February so home schooling took a lot of time, then I had a couple of heavy college projects.

Anyway, I've really struggled to get my head around the role, and with motivation, given there's very few deadlines and I'm not used to working like that, but I have nothing done and my boss wants me to send her my progress so far.

What do I do?

Great that you are cracking on with producing something TinyHouse. Don’t overlook that month you did of calling people and getting yourself known. Write up a short summary (‘stakeholder engagement’ or similar) - outline the key roles / depts covered, key themes that came out of conversations that are relevant to your work, capture a few ‘actions’ at the end.

Did you have a 90 day plan? Did you create objectives?

I would pull together what you have done - stakeholder relationship building/strategic understanding/regulatory understanding etc.

Then pull together what has went well/what needs more focus.

Be clear on future deadlines and make sure you learn from this

How did today go OP?