From the course: Strategies for Your First 90 Days in a New Job
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Example of a reaction document
From the course: Strategies for Your First 90 Days in a New Job
Example of a reaction document
- Next time you are given an assignment, quickly draw up a low fidelity outline or sample of the work. Ask your manager, is this along the lines of what you were thinking? I'll keep going if so. Here they can react to something on a page which is so much easier than them trying to explain what to do out of thin air. This is called a reaction document. And the magical thing is even if what you come up with is wrong and they want the complete opposite of what you came up with, that is excellent progress because many busy leaders don't know exactly what they want until they have something to react to. Let's walk through an example. Your boss says they need help putting together a retreat for the leadership team. The mediocre employee would wait to be told what to do and how to do it. The good employee would come up with some probing questions to understand what needs to be done. They try to uncover what their boss…
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