The book holds eight sets of first one-on-one pages, eight feedback preparations, and twelve weekly reflections. If you have a bigger team, a second transition, or you simply want to start again, every working page is here as a printable PDF. Free, and no purchase required — you have already bought the book. Print whichever pages you need, as many times as you need them.
US Letter, black and white, designed to be written on.
First 1:1 preparation
Prepare exactly three things before the conversation that resets the relationship: what changes, the one thing you will not promise, and one specific strength you have actually seen in their work.
Feedback preparation
For giving feedback to someone who has watched you do the same job. Structure first, so the history does not do the talking.
Weekly reflection
Twelve weeks, each with its own rotating question. Where you avoided discomfort, where you over-explained, who got the least of your attention, and whether you did what you said you would.
Relationship map
Every person you now manage against how you knew them before — prior dynamic, whether they wanted the job, what changes for them, and what they are afraid of.
Relationship map — wide grid
The same eight columns turned landscape, for teams above twelve. Thirty people across two sheets. One line each rather than the book’s two, which is the trade for the extra names.
Fairness audit
Run it monthly. The friend penalty runs both ways — check whether you are going easier on the people you were close to, or harder on them to prove you are not.
Credibility tracker
Credibility as a manager is made of small promises kept. Log them, because you will not remember them and the team will.
Quick reference and phrase bank
The do and don’t list, plus a find-it-fast index: when this happens, go here. Sized to keep on a desk.
The Kindle edition contains the full text — every chapter, every script, every decision framework. What a screen cannot contain is the writing space.
The paperback binds these worksheets in at the back, because pages that exist to be written on should be paper. If you have the reading edition, print the ones you need and work alongside them. Nothing is held back.
Seven short emails timed to the moments they are about, not to a weekly schedule. The announcement window at day three. The boundary drift at two weeks. “You’ve changed” at sixty days, which is usually when it gets said.
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Fourteen chapters across the first ninety days, with thirty-one scripts for the conversations nobody prepares you for — starting with the person who wanted your job.