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New Leader Listening · For executive onboarding and new leader transitions

Empower your new leaders to 
listen to everyone before
making their first big call.

No scheduling headaches, no notes to aggregate or scores to decipher.  Savo AI-moderated conversations 
are grounded in science to give you decision-grade insights you can trust, in days.

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THE FIRST THIRTY DAYS

For the first time, your leader can learn what their whole team thinks in under a week. Faster understanding, accelerated time to impact.

01
LEGACY METHOD CHALLENGE # 1

Limited access

New leaders usually only have time to talk to a few managers and peers, and run a focus group or a survey for everyone below. The top line is heard. The rest arrives filtered by the types of problems that are already known, and the people willing to engage.

02
LEGACY METHOD CHALLENGE # 2

Limited candor

In one-on-one interviews and assimilation sessions, the questions are right but candor is bound by who else is present. People tell a new boss what they think the boss wants to hear, and the leader hears most from whoever speaks up most.

03
LEGACY METHOD CHALLENGE # 3

Limited insights

Someone on your team has to turn the notes into themes by hand. What reaches the leader is stripped of the context that produce the readout, and it lands on day 45, after the first calls were already made.

Apostrophe

"Walking into a leadership role with a hundred people across multiple functions, I knew I needed a real picture of where things stood before I started forming opinions. Savo gave me that. The conversations were candid in a way that skip-levels and staff meetings rarely are, and the synthesis made patterns visible that I would have taken months to piece together on my own. I had a genuine baseline within weeks of starting. That's not something I had a tool for before. "

Ron Johnson

VP Commercial Operations · Cloud-based CRM platform

HOW IT WORKS

How Savo New Leader Listening program works: four easy steps.

01

You set it up

Pick the New Leader Listening template, load the team roster, preview the conversation, review invite. Takes minutes, not days.

02

Savo sends it

The invite goes out on behalf of the new leader, in their own words. People know their new boss wants to hear their unique perspective.

03

Team members talk to Savo

About ten minutes each, on their own time, from anywhere. Confidential to encourage sharing freely.

04

You both get the readout

Themes emerge, connected to the questions asked, with the words to back it up. You share the insight reports with your new leaders and you can use them during check-ins. The leader shares back what they heard and answers the questions people asked most.

WHAT YOU GET BACK IN A WEEK

Rich team insights, at scale

Everyone on the New Leader's team is asked the same three things with the warmth and adaptability of a human interviewer. The readout shares what was said as theme linked to anonymous quotes so the leader quickly understands where they can make the greatest impact, and the team feels safe to share everything.

69%

69% of senior executives name not understanding how the organization works as a cause of a difficult transition (Egon Zehnder). Savo's science-based conversations give your new leader that understanding in days, from everyone, in their own words.

Get the research behind New Leader Listening →

THREE THINGS EVERYONE IS ASKED
01
WHAT TO PROTECT

What are you proud of here, and what would you want a new leader to protect?

The group at its best, in specific moments rather than general praise. What not to touch yet.

02
CHALLENGES AND CAUSES

What's the biggest challenge facing this group, why does it exist, and what should the new leader address first?

The difficulty, the mechanism behind it and where it shows up in the work: the handoffs, waits and decisions that never get made.

03
HOPES, NEEDS AND CONCERNS

What do you need from the new leader to do your best work, and what one question would you most like them to answer?

Needs, hopes and concerns with the experience behind each, and the questions people most want answered, grouped and counted. Expectations, not a rating of the leader.

Insight report

The insight report contains the themes, the passages that produced them, the number of people who have spoje on the topic, and the questions people most want the leader to answer. No scores, no index, no rating of the leader. The leader shares back what they heard, what they plan to do, and answers to the most pressing questions.

 

Try it yourself

See Savo in action

Click through the real product: pick the question, add participants, set up the invitation, launch.

Walk through the setup

Template to invite to readout, in about three minutes.

app.savo.ai · New campaign
✓Pick template
✓Load roster
3Preview conversation
4Review invite
Template
New Leader Listening
3 areas · about 10 minutes · confidential
PreviewEdit
Supademo · 3 min · click through

See how Savo asks, adapts, explores

What guides the conversation, start to finish.

Savo · New Leader Listening conversation
Savo
Hi, I’m Savo. The new leader of your team wants to hear from everyone before making their first decisions. To start: what are you proud of about this group?
The Monday planning huddle. Thirty minutes, and it’s the only time the whole team hears the same thing.
Savo
Tell me about a moment that showed it.
Experience the conversation →Public link

Read a sample readout

Themes across the five dimensions, each with the words and the number of people behind it, and the questions people most want answered.

Insight report · sample62 of 80 heard
Protect41 of 62
The Monday planning huddle
 
“It’s the only time the whole team hears the same thing.”
Address first28 of 62
Decisions explained, not only announced
 
“We find out what changed, but not why.”
Download the sample insight report →Behind the form
WHERE IT FITS

The missing step in your executive onboarding

Savo fits within your existing leader assimilation session and the 30-60-90 your team already runs. 
Most "what I heard" readouts land around day 45. Savo Insight Reports lands by day 15.

Days 1–5

You set it up and send it

Day 6

Conversations open

Day 15

Conversations close

Day 16

Readout arrives, share with new leader

Days 60–90

Optional re-run

The offer

Your leader gets to hear from everyone for under $500.

At .50 cents a minute, you can afford for your new leader to learn from everyone, quarterly! About $5 a conversation, simply load your minutes, invite everyone on the team. Pick one or two new leaders and run it on their behalf to see how it can work for your organization.

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WEBINAR

Help your new leaders succeed: Learn how to help them hear from their full team in the first 30 days

Learn how to make New Leader Listening a default step in your executive onboarding plan, what the readout looks like, and how the you can use it to move from playing administrative support to a being a strategic success driver. Includes insight report on where your HR peers are in their AI readiness.

[DATE] · [TIME] · 30 minutes

Who it's for: Chief Talent Officers; VPs and Directors of Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness and Organizational Development; Talent Management Managers; HR business partners.

Can't make it live? Register and we'll send the recording.

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Let your new leaders listen to 
everyone before making their 
first big call.

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