My last few jobs I started with a listening tour. I talked to everyone who was relevant to the job and asked them: - what is going well, - what is not going

My last few jobs I started with a listening tour. I talked to everyone who was relevant to the job and asked them: - what is going well, - what is not going well -what do hope that I will fix -what should I do -what should I not do I put those question in the agenda for the meeting invite so they could come prepared. Then we took the conversation from there. I put it all into a google doc, then synthesized it into summary that hid the identities of the people who said it and used it as my guide for the first few months.