2-Hour Virtual Seminar on First Steps in Business: How to Navigate Your New Job Successfully
December 9, 2025
08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST
2 Hours
711798
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Starting a new job is one of the most important milestones in your career it sets the tone for your future success.
This engaging webinar is designed to equip professionals with the tools, insights, and strategies needed to thrive in the first weeks and months of a new role. From understanding company culture and building credibility to strengthening relationships with managers and colleagues, you'll gain practical advice that ensures a smooth transition and long-term career growth. Whether it's your first professional role or a step into a new industry, this session will help you avoid common pitfalls, accelerate your confidence, and navigate the challenges of a new workplace with clarity and success.Why should you Attend:
- Understand the importance of the first 90 days in a new role and how to maximize them
- Learn strategies to adapt to a new workplace culture and environment
- Build strong, professional relationships with managers, colleagues, and stakeholders
- Develop credibility and create early wins that demonstrate value
- Enhance communication skills for effective workplace interactions
- Gain tools to manage stress, build resilience, and maintain confidence during the transition
- Create a personalized action plan to guide your first weeks and months on the job
- Lay the foundation for long-term professional growth and success in your new role
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Welcome & Introduction(0:00 - 0:10)
- Setting expectations for your first weeks on the job
- Adapting to Company Culture(0:10 - 0:25)
- Understanding organizational values, norms, and behaviors
- Building Key Relationships(0:25 - 0:40)
- How to establish trust and credibility with your manager and team
- Early Wins(0:40 - 0:55)
- Strategies for identifying and achieving quick successes
- Effective Communication(0:55 - 1:15)
- Best practices for clear and confident workplace interactions
- Managing Stress & Confidence(1:15 - 1:30)
- Techniques for staying resilient in a new environment
- Creating a 90-Day Plan(1:30 - 1:45)
- How to structure goals, priorities, and milestones
- Q&A & Wrap-Up(1:45 - 2:00)
- Action planning and discussion of participant challenges
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
