A cheat sheet with guiding questions for a feedback check-in assessing the first 100 days on the job

By Roderick Kefferpütz

Regular check-ins and feedback play a substantive role in the successful integration, motivation, and performance of new think tankers. Whether you have weekly or monthly check-ins, or schedule them as needed, open lines of communication are crucial. A particular milestone is after 100 days, which equates to the midway point of the customary six-month probationary period. For this milestone, the Think Tank Lab has created a 100-day feedback check-in guide.

Roderick Kefferpütz was a former Senior Analyst at MERICS. Before joining MERICS, Kefferpütz was Deputy Head of Unit for Strategy at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. Prior to that he worked ten years in Brussels, amongst others as chief of staff to MEP Reinhard Bütikofer, Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to China. Kefferpütz began his professional career with research positions at the Heinrich Böll Foundation offices in Moscow, Warsaw, and Brussels.