What is your advice for executive leaders stepping in a new company on ways to gain confidence and demontrate progress to C-level quickly?

Advice for new executive leaders: engage, ask questions, and build team connections.

 Well, once you are the one that leans into a thing that already exists, there
 is a lot
 of technical things and knowledge and baggage that they expect you to aggregate
 for that.
 And most of people will just assume that you are the best for that position.
 So what I think for an outsider perspective, once you get a new place, start
 asking good
 questions around, try to make connections with everybody.
 If your company has a hundred people, under you talk to each and everyone, make
 sure that
 they know where you are, what you are doing, and do questions like what do you
 expect from
 me, what things that you think it lack on this department, use the freshness
 that you
 have to ask candid questions, the most that you can, to get the most of the
 answers without
 being top down.


New executive leaders should engage with their team, ask insightful questions, and build connections to build confidence and demonstrate progress.

How do you answer “What’s your biggest weakness” in an interview?

Own your weakness by choosing a natural trait and framing it as a balanced strength.

 I don't like very much this question, but unfortunately it's a very common one.
 My suggestion is that people take their self-assessment and choose a
 characteristic that is very natural for you.
 And answer something like, "I rely too much on that characteristic that I
 sometimes forget to do the opposite."
 And create this balancing thinking. And you are telling the truth. So in my
 case, let's say I'm a very influential personality.
 So I can say, "My biggest weakness is that I rely too much on my persuasiveness
 that I forget to be a little bit more insensitive sometimes."
 And that is an answer that will serve to the purpose without diminishing view.


The answer suggests owning a natural trait as a weakness, framing it positively, and balancing it with its opposite.