Your First 90 Days as a Principal Officer

YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS AS A PRINCIPAL OFFICER

Leading People, Policy and Delivery in the Irish Civil Service

A Principal Officer can be very busy and still leave the most important choices unresolved. Use your opening quarter to give people direction and connect senior commitments with work that can actually be delivered.

Follow Eimear through her first three months, with practical guidance for policy, programme, operational and specialist assignments.

Inside:

- Understand the assignment and agree expectations with your senior manager.

- Establish an AP leadership team with meaningful responsibilities.

- Write a direction note and a concise senior recommendation.

- Test policy assumptions and respond to unsupported benefit claims.

- Agree work across divisions and understand resource commitments.

- Interpret performance beyond a headline percentage.

- Give difficult feedback, welcome early warnings and lead through disruption.

- Use completed first-month and ninety-day review notes.

- Adapt eight worksheets and practise an overnight change to a launch decision.

- Find a plain-English glossary and eight official source links.

Includes a 59-page PDF and reflowable EPUB, approximately 12,600 words including source notes and excluding embedded font notices. Worksheets are text prompts for copying into a permitted work document or printing; they are not interactive forms.

Independent practical guidance. Your departmental policies, appointment terms, reporting arrangements and delegations govern formal matters.

Price: EUR 5.00. Includes PDF and EPUB.