Welcome to First 100

6TH DECEMBER 2010
Online coverage highlights growing trend of senior leaders using First100™ Programs

is4profit - 23rd November 2010
Bosses Sign up for First100 Programs

Fresh Business Thinking - 24th November 2010
Growing Recognition of the Importance of the First 100 days

18TH AUGUST 2010 - BUSINESS REVIEW EUROPE
First100™ informs on how to build a winning leadership team

19TH JULY 2010
First100™ Advises Financial Directors on their Strategic Roles

1ST JUNE 2010
First100™ Discusses the Shrinking Time Pressures faced by Politicians and Business Leaders Alike

14TH MAY 2010 - THE IRISH EXAMINER
And when you do get that job...

4TH MAY 2010 - THE GUARDIAN
First100™ advises on coping with the move between the public and private sector

If the forecasted job cuts in public services have got you thinking about moving to the private sector, ensure you're prepared for the change...

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8TH APRIL 2010 - THE GUARDIAN
First100™ advises candidates lined up for one of Britain’s toughest jobs

4TH APRIL 2010 - THE SUNDAY TIMES
Make an impact in just 100 days

11TH MARCH 2010 - INSIDER
First100™ advises at the roundtable

11TH MARCH 2010
Institute of Leadership & Management review our book

The ILM's Edge Online book reviewing services is designed to help its readers get ahead, takes a fresh look at the hottest workplace topics, without ever reverting to management-speak.

Got Promoted? Get Promoted again
When you’re appointed to a new leadership role, you’re immediately under pressure to deliver. As the recent focus on President Obama shows, your success or failure as a leader is often judged on your performance during the first 100 days. Ensuring that this initial period goes well will have a major influence on your longer term success.

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3RD MARCH 2010
First100™ Blog appears on British Airways Business Life

Niamh O’Keeffe, author of Got Promoted? Get Promoted. (Again), has some advice for the new head of ITV

Lights, camera, action…

Adam Crozier, former joint chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, former chief executive of the Football Association and current Royal Mail CEO, is leaving his position to take up an even more high-profile role at troubled media giant ITV. Some media commentators have described it as “a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.”

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17TH FEBRUARY 2010
First100™ LIVE on Channel M Today

17TH FEBRUARY 2010 - THE BUSINESS DESK
First100™ makes the Business Desk

8TH JANUARY 2010
First100™ appoints PR Agency Paver Smith

First100™ - the specialist business leadership coaching company - has appointed public relations agency Paver Smith to raise its profile among the UK’s corporate elite.

The company, which has offices in London, Manchester and Dublin, currently works with senior executives of FTSE clients such Vodafone, Accenture and BP ensuring their first 100 days lay the foundations for long-term and lasting success.

The appointment of Paver Smith forms a central part of First100™’s strategy to expand its client base by positioning the firm and managing director, Niamh O’Keeffe, as experts in senior level executive coaching.

Commenting on the appointment, Ms. O’Keeffe said:
“We were very impressed with Paver Smith’s ideas for publicising First100™. They quickly grasped we are more than a business coaching company and that we offer a tried-and-tested framework to help senior executives in their critical first 100 days in a new role.

“We have set ambitious targets for 2010. Our decision to appoint Paver Smith reflects our determination to grow our business and position First100 as the leading specialists in understanding what drives success in the first 100 days of a new role”

Denise Mullen, Paver Smith director said:
“We are delighted to be appointed. First100™ is already established and proven at the highest level in London and Ireland and the firm has widened its focus to take in industry leaders across the UK. We love the concept and are sold on the delivery.

“The first 100 days of a senior role are critical and those in post usually find it impossible to make a difference in the very early days. All that changes with First100™”

22ND DECEMBER 2009
The First100 Team

Fiona, Niamh, Padraig & Garrett @ CIPD Manchester, November 17th 2009.

6TH JULY 2008 - SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Making a Mark

27TH JUNE 2008 - THE IRISH TIMES
Coaching to Success

11TH MAY 2008 - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
Executive Coaching Catches On

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Origins of first 100 days

Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) had his inauguration as President of America on 4th March 1933. It occurred in the middle of a terrifying bank panic. Historian Arthur Schlesinger described the mood at FDR's inauguration: "It was now a matter of seeing whether a representative democracy could conquer economic collapse. It was a matter of staving off violence - even, some thought - revolution."

Nearly 13 million people in the US - one in four - were jobless. Nineteen million people depended upon meagre relief payments to survive. Workers lucky enough to have jobs earned, on average, only two-thirds what they made at the start of the Depression in 1929. Many of those who had money lost it: four thousand banks collapsed in the first two months of 1933. So great was the emergency, some urged dictatorial powers, but FDR rejected the suspension of constitutional government. Instead he embarked on a plan of "Action, and Action Now" to meet this vast crisis. The speed and scope of his actions were unprecedented.

FDR’s legendary "First 100 Days" concentrated on the first part of his strategy: immediate relief. He successfully prevented a run on the banks by immediately declaring a "bank holiday," closing all banks indefinitely until bankers and government could regain control of the situation. From March 9 to June 16, 1933, FDR sent Congress a record number of bills, all of which passed easily. The second part of his strategy was to provide long-lasting reform to the nation's economy. The First 100 Days was important because it got the New Deal off to a strong and early start, resulting in many essential programs taken for granted in the US today.

Many later presidents have used the "First 100 Days" as a measure against which to mobilize their own administrations. But none has succeeded in achieving FDR's legislative agenda. In less than four months the economy was stabilized, homes and farms were saved from foreclosure, and massive relief and work programs addressed the dire needs of the people. Most important, the First 100 Days restored hope and, in the process, preserved democratic government in the United States.

See any interesting parallels between FDR and the challenges that faced President Barack Obama in his first 100 days in office? Faced with considerable pressure to get the American economy and the global economy back on track, it was worth noting that one of his first actions as President Elect was to announce his Two Year Plan - hitting the ground running so fast that even though there can only be one American president at a time, he had to demonstrate a fast start months ahead of official day one.

Your first 100 days content will not be as dramatic as that of FDR or President Barack Obama.

Nonetheless, leaders in today's high performance corporate organisations do find themselves in extremely pressurised situations and need to be able to step up with speed.