STAFF EXPECTATIONS AND TRANSITION IDEAS

[Joseph_Ohler_Jr]

It sounds like the discussion of productivity has great potential to turn your employees against you more than they might already be. Your list is great, but I advise adding to the agenda:

7) Your suggestions ("your" being those of the direct reports you manage)

Why? Because it will give them an impression that you want to work with them and not against them. It will portray you as someone who genuinely cares and wants to empower your employees.

Cheers!

[drloretta]

With the caveat that I've never been a manager, but have had discussions about my managers and such with my dad, who managed for decades:

I may not go in with guns blazing, which from your list looks like how it might be perceived. The conventional wisdom is to take some time to just see how things are done when you first come into a new role such as this. Once you've settled in (and have been perceived as such) you can start making changes. I agree with the pp that you'll need to get buy-in from your employees. At your first staff meeting, it might be more effective to just focus on your management style and work to get your employees to take some ownership of their roles.

[santorini]

It is hard coming in as the new person and a young manager. I had been in similar situations and that meeting could truly go wrong easily. One of the best things I have done when starting a new job is to meet with each person individually and ask them to tell you about themselves, what they enjoy in their personal time, their career goals, any things they'd like to see changed at work, their career goals, and what they hope you bring to this position. Come at it like a coworker and not like a boss. Use a relaxed environment.

For this meeting, I would use it as an open forum for their ideas and make it fun. Use the next meeting to start diving into things that need addressed. I agree with PP that they need to form an opinion of you first.