Earning Trust in the First Two Weeks
A forward-deployed consultant is a stranger given deep access to a team's work. Everything that follows depends on how quickly that stranger becomes someone the team is glad is there. The first two weeks decide it.
A forward-deployed consultant is a stranger given deep access to a team’s work, and the first two weeks decide whether that stranger becomes someone the team is glad is there. Building trust through small visible usefulness, pairing credibility with warmth, winning over the person who didn’t want you there, and why trust is the real deliverable of the beginning.