1190: How to Get Off to a Great Start with Your New Manager with Dina Denham Smith

It's not about becoming best friends. It's about really working together, like efficiently, productively, positively. And You can just Get under the hood and ask a few questions and get there a whole lot more quickly.

That's Dina Denham Smith. She's an accomplished executive coach who draws on her background in organizational psychology and firsthand executive experience to help senior leaders and teams at world class companies thrive. So learn one, the first step in dealing with a change in leadership, two, Why it's worth investing in a relationship with an interim manager, and three, why it pays to know the operating preferences of your new manager. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actual wisdom that we share here, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's D Down. Dina, welcome.

Thank you. Good to be here. Well, I'm excited to be chatting with you, and you wrote a lovely piece in the Harvard Business Review about the keys to succeeding under a new manager. Could you share with us What prompted you to think The world needs this article.

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