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I was promoted recently. I have a mentor who told me to make a 100-day plan the share it with my new team to show them what I’m about and walk through my initiatives/goals.

As I’m doing this, I keep thinking about my old team and the camaraderie. My new team is small, based across UK, work from home, and feel isolated. My new manager doesn’t help, as he keeps all his teams separated by lead area and our paths never cross. My team don’t feel included in the wider team and work with external teams more. Quite fragmented, basically a matrix management system. There is no team spirit.

My idea is to start a wider team group chat and have all staff group meetings, get a people group running etc. I have screenshots of the group chat from my old team (completely safe to share) that has examples of team bonding/praise/RnR posts including people across offices. I know I could just generally say how we could use the chat - it’s a basic idea and I’m not insulting his intelligence. However I could use the screenshots as proof almost and visually walk him through it and the result/reception. Bad idea?

I reckon an active, positive group chat (on Teams?) would have been a result of good communication and relationships, and not a cause.

I also worry that this idea leaves you open to criticism from him. Shouldn’t a First 100 Days Plan be about measurable outcomes?

thanks. Well the difference between this team and my
old team is:

• worked together in office
• Old chat had 90 participants, including stakeholders outside office
• I can prove I built relationships with these stakeholders ie the chat created joined up working
• senior leaders were involved in the chat, giving feedback, praise and equal attention to things

new team:

• work completely from home
• consist of 16 people under me, 40 people total under my manager
• senior leaders not concerned with my team, don’t communicate with stakeholders, mixed messages etc
• my team feel left out

A group chat is more necessary for my new team as they don’t currently have alternative good communication. It’s an easy win for my manager to get involved in, makes him look good. I suppose a measurable could be people surveys. I know it’s basic, I have other agenda items too.