Start your wins log, today. Open a note on your phone titled "Wins." Write the last five things you did that worked: a problem solved, a thing shipped, a save nobody saw. Use script 1 so each says what it was worth. You'll feed this for the rest of the 90 days.
Find where your work goes quiet
The read (3 minutes)
Phase 1 made you clear. Phase 2 makes you seen, and it starts with a map. Hard work doesn't speak for itself. People speak, and they can only repeat what they know. Somewhere between your desk and the people who decide on your target, information about your work stops traveling. This week you find out exactly where, and you point the map at the people who matter to the target you set.
That sentence women keep typing at 11pm, "I do good work and get good feedback but the recognition never arrives," describes an information gap, not a performance gap. The feedback is private because the knowledge is private. Your manager knows. The people your manager talks to mostly don't, and your target probably depends on some of them.
So before you change how you talk about your work, you map where it currently lands. No fixing this week. Just an honest picture: who influences your target, and what could each of them actually say about your work if asked? The blanks are not a verdict. They are the to-do list for the rest of phase 2.
This week's moves
Map who decides on your target. List five people who influence whether you reach your target: the person who decides, their boss, the peer who's always consulted, someone in another team whose work depends on yours, one senior leader with a say. Next to each, write what they could say about your work today. Write "blank" where you don't know.
Pick the gap that costs the most. Choose the one person whose blank hurts your target the most. Write: "By [a date in phase 2], I want [name] to know that I [value sentence]." That's your visibility focus for the next few weeks.
Script bank
Word for word, ready to use. Edit any script to make it yours, then copy it.
1.The wins log line
"[What I did], so that [who] could [result]." Example shape: "Rebuilt the handoff checklist, so that onboarding stopped losing a week per hire."
2.The one-sentence value line
"I [verb] [the thing] and it [result]." Strong verbs only: built, ran, fixed, caught, shipped, untangled.
3.Stop shrinking the win
Take any sentence about your work and delete "just," "only," "kind of," "a little," "I helped with." If you helped with X, name the part you owned.
4.The peer pulse-check
To a trusted colleague: "Quick odd question. I'm taking stock of how my work lands. If someone asked you what I'm known for here, what would you say?"
Friday debrief prompts
Your Friday email carries the reply template. These are the prompts inside it.
- Who decides on your target, and what's the biggest blank on the map?
- Which name will you focus on first?
- Your value sentence for that person: write it here.
Coming into phase 2 from a slow phase 1? Start here, not back at week 1. Do move 1 and move 2; this map is the spine of the next five weeks.