Free Quiz for Newly Promoted Managers
Just Promoted Over Your Peers? Find Your First Three Moves
Twelve situations from the first weeks after an internal promotion. At the end you do not get a score or a label. You get three things to do this week, in the order to do them, with the words to use.
12 questions · About 3 minutes · No email required
The hard part is not the job. It is that they already know you.
A manager hired from outside starts with a blank page. A manager promoted from within starts with a history: the jokes, the group chat, the complaints about the last boss you used to share, and one person who is fairly sure the job should have been theirs. None of that goes away on the day of the announcement. It just stops being said out loud.
That is why the first weeks after an internal promotion go wrong in such a predictable way. Almost nobody fails at the new tasks. They fail at the old relationships, usually by trying to keep everything the same or by overcorrecting into a version of themselves nobody recognizes. Both feel reasonable from the inside, and both send the same message to the team: nobody is going to talk about what just changed.
The six areas this quiz looks at come straight from that problem. Some of them get harder every week you leave them, and some can safely wait a month. Knowing which is which matters more than getting any single one perfect, and it is the part most advice leaves out. For the full picture behind each area, read Yesterday You Were Their Colleague, Today You're Their Boss.
Why you get a plan instead of a score
A score is useful when you have time to work on everything. Two weeks after a promotion you do not. What you need is triage: the three things worth doing this week, and the order to do them in. So the result ranks areas by how quickly they get harder to fix, not by how badly an answer went. The area that looks worst is not always the one to start with, and the plan says so.
If you would rather be measured, the Am I a Good Manager assessment scores you across five dimensions and names your weakest one. If you want to know which way you lean by default, What Type of Manager Are You? sorts you into one of five modes. This one skips both and hands you the week. Still deciding whether to take the role at all? Start with Am I Ready to Be a Manager? instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I do first after being promoted over my peers?
For most people it is a short, private conversation with whoever was a realistic candidate for the job, followed by naming the change out loud with the team and then one to one with each former peer. The confidentiality line with friends on the team comes next, because it is the one mistake you cannot take back. The order depends on your team, which is what this quiz works out.
How is this different from your other manager quizzes?
Am I a Good Manager scores you and names your weakest area. What Type of Manager Are You sorts you into a default mode. This one does neither. It gives you no score and no label, only three moves for this week in the order to make them, because the question right after an internal promotion is not how good you are. It is what to do first.
I was hired from outside, not promoted. Is this for me?
Probably not. Most of the questions are about people who knew you before the promotion. If you joined from outside, the Are You Winning Your First 90 Days assessment fits your situation better.
Is it free? Do you store my answers?
Free, no email, no account. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Close the tab and it is gone unless you save the result as a PDF.
Joined from outside rather than promoted? The Are You Winning Your First 90 Days? assessment covers the first three months for any new manager.
This is a self-reflection tool built around common situations after an internal promotion. It is not a psychometric instrument and not a substitute for real feedback from your team. Use the plan as a starting point, not a verdict.
Based on your result
The First 90 Days Playbook
Your three moves cover this week. The playbook lays out all thirteen weeks of the first ninety days in order, so the step after these is already written down.
Get the playbook$49After This Week, in This Order
The other three areas did not make this week, which does not mean they are fine. It means they can wait until the first three are done.