Coaching practices for How Can I Prepare for My New Job I Have 2 Weeks Before I Join

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• I’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• I walk into Monday blind and then keep getting blindsided mid-week
• I dive into Monday with no sense of what the week is actually for, so I end up chasing whatever shouts loudest each day and the two or three things that would make the week a real success never get a protected slot.
• I’m about to walk into a new job and a new neighborhood, and I’m already bracing for it to be awkward, rehearsing how they probably won’t take to me

Practices that may help

1. Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
   Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
2. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
3. Run a weekly preview before the week begins
   On Sunday evening, scan the incoming week against your ideal week template and protect what matters.
   Ideal Week Design
4. Weekly planning
   Set the week’s priorities and rough blocks before the week starts.
   Time Blocking, Made Practical
5. Use the anticipation of interaction to create liking before meeting
   Knowing you will interact with someone in the future makes you evaluate them more positively before it happens.
   The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger)
6. Forming: provide clarity before connection
   In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
7. Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
   When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
8. Create an ideal week template
   Design a blank-canvas week that shows where each type of activity should live, before any specific week's demands arrive.
   Ideal Week Design
9. Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to
   Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
10. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
    Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
    Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network

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