A new manager or a team after a review often has a goal, a list of issues and no order to tackle them in. This plan converts the goal into specific actions, each with one owner, a due date and a way of checking it worked. It is laid out in three thirty-day blocks, covering listening, building and scaling, followed by a measures page that keeps the sponsor informed.

The sample follows a fictional engineering team at Bramblewood Engineering, with three measures, a baseline for each, weekly progress checks and a review in June. Replace the goal, actions, owners and dates with your own, make sure every action starts with a verb, and set the review date before the first week ends.