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The First 90 Days as Head of Support

Inherited a support org? This is the plan: audit what you've got, set the metrics execs care about, calculate real cost per ticket, and decide what to fix first — and what to replace.

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Make your mark in the first 90 days

Your first 90 days decide your credibility. Audit the operation, stabilize what's breaching SLAs on your biggest accounts, then prove progress to leadership with a scorecard they trust.

The account-aware difference: a new leader's fastest credibility win is showing leadership which accounts are at risk and why — that needs account-level support data (health, SLA breaches by customer, escalation patterns), not just aggregate ticket counts.
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Your first 90 days

A simple sequence to build credibility fast — audit, stabilize, then prove it.

PhaseFocusOutput
Days 0–30Audit: tickets, SLAs, tooling, at-risk accountsBaseline + top 3 risks
Days 31–60Fix the bleeding: routing, SLAs, QAStabilized metrics
Days 61–90Prove it: scorecard + exec narrativeA plan you can defend to the board
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