Learn from team together and individually - current projects, biggest challenges, easiest improvement, biggest waste of time, larger scale improvements, management style, goals

Learn about organization – onboarding, policy review, org chart, process documentation, strategic priorities.

Learn about the industry –training, join professional associations, job shadowing, compliance metrics, key performance indicators.

Learn about software collecting data, analytical software, and data sources.

Set regular meetings with team, supervisor, direct reports.

Plan with other leaders how to meet existing and emerging needs

Plan new metric integration

Plan data fluency initiative

Plan for data governance & stewardship

SWOT & Prioritize

Execute on priorities:

-Project tracking

-Project prioritization

-Analytical sophistication

-Communicating metrics

-Data reliability

Develop a tentative 1- and 3-year strategic plan for the department.