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The Free Starter Kit

Five of the marquee tools from The Emergent Manager, free and editable in Word or Google Docs. The same worksheets new managers use in the first ninety days.

  • 1 Your Key Few Objectives
  • 2 Your Role Charter
  • 3 Your Personal Advisory Board
  • 4 Your Stakeholder Map
  • 5 Your First Moves action plan

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What's inside

Five tools, not five PDFs of advice

Every one is a worksheet you fill in and use in a real conversation this week.

Tool one

Your Key Few Objectives

The two or three things you must actually nail this year. Most new managers try to do everything and land nothing. This forces the cut.

Tool two

Your Role Charter

What you own, what you don't, and what good looks like, agreed with your boss rather than assumed. The single best hour you can spend in month one.

Tool three

Your Personal Advisory Board

The handful of people who will tell you the truth. Chosen deliberately, before you need them.

Tool four

Your Stakeholder Map

Who matters, what they need from you, and where you currently stand with each of them. Removes the guesswork from managing sideways and up.

Tool five

Your First Moves action plan

The specific early actions that build credibility, sequenced so they compound instead of competing. This is the one people tell us they keep going back to.

How it works

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1

Enter your email

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2

Open the file

Editable in Word or Google Docs. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

3

Use one this week

Start with the Role Charter. It changes the next conversation you have with your boss.

The Emergent Manager: Field Guide to Your First Six Months as a Manager, by Jesse Jacoby

The kit is five tools. The book is the whole method.

Twenty-two core skills, more than forty ready-to-use tools, and one concrete action to close every chapter. A step-by-step plan for the six months that decide whether the step up works.