What are some tried-and-true "quick wins" or early successes that you targeted to quickly demonstrate your value when taking on a new role or joining a new organization?

This approach helped me gain trust, momentum, and a foundation for sustainable growth within that organization.

1. Identify Immediate Pain Points: Engage with stakeholders to address critical challenges quickly.  
2. Deliver High-Impact Solutions: Prioritize a single deliverable with significant value  
3. Build Key Relationships: Establish partnerships, such as with Gartner, to gain validation and industry credibility.  
4. Leverage Early Adopters: Collaborate with initial clients to refine the product and gather impactful testimonials.  
5. Focus on Internal Alignment: Set clear, achievable milestones for team success.  
6. Demonstrate Measurable Value: Highlight results like time saved and improved to showcase ROI early in the case of this organization.  

In my career, I’ve always tried to understand the customer’s voice from the start of every new role. Every role has a customer component (internal customer, external customer, or both). Understanding the customer’s voice in your role helps you grasp what it means to demonstrate value or a quick win.

Build personal relationships early on; people work best with people they know and trust so building this early will give you a head start when you need the support.  Ensure the intake process captures a clear problem statement and value proposition; ideally both are written by the business sponsor.  This will be the target your team(s) should strive to hit.  Work with your stakeholders to prioritize initiatives utilizing value and complexity/effort; help them to start the initiatives with high ROI now and to table those will little to no ROI.  Track everything somewhere (risks, actions, tasks, decisions); data driven decisions are far more reliable than guesswork and your stakeholders will have confidence in your ability to analyze and summarize this data to stay focused on the objectives.

Identifying the most valuable projects and initiatives in the scope of the new role. Identifying the main stakeholders around these projects and collecting their expectations. Focusing on the most important projects and unlock anything slowing down or blocking these projects. The key is being very active on the most important tasks while learning all the context and less prioritary things in the background.