You are new and unsure how things work
Expectations are unspoken and you are guessing at them daily.
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See what you would learn
Become someone a new team relies on, without trying to please everyone.
A course for the first months on a new team. It covers reading what people expect, following through in the small ways that build trust fast, and earning respect without agreeing to everything.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to build stronger working relationships on a new team. Help me understand expectations, follow through reliably, and earn trust without trying to please everyone.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Work relationships
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- Are you new to the team, new to the organisation, or working with a team you do not report to?
- Do you tend to over-promise to be liked, or hold back until you feel sure?
- Is there one relationship you most want to get right?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You say yes too much
Agreeing feels like the way in, and it is quietly making you unreliable.
Trust from a previous team did not transfer
You had it before and starting again feels slow.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06How trust forms at work
Competence, reliability and intent, and why the small things count more than the big gesture.
Learning the real rules
Questions that surface norms, and what to watch in the first weeks.
Small promises, kept
Choosing commitments you can keep, and closing the loop every time.
Agreeable is not trustworthy
Why people-pleasing reads as unreliability, and how to decline without distance.
Repairing a slip
Owning a missed commitment fast, which builds more trust than never slipping.
The relationships that matter most
Investing in the two or three that shape your work, without neglecting the rest.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Read the unwritten expectations
Find out how the team actually works before you act on how you assume it does.
Build trust through follow-through
Make and keep small commitments visibly.
Be reliable rather than agreeable
Say no or not yet in a way that increases trust instead of spending it.
Ideas this course corrects
Trust takes years
Trust forms in weeks when follow-through is visible. Years are needed only to recover it.
Being liked comes first
Being relied on comes first. Liking tends to follow reliability, not the reverse.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course for the first months on a new team. It covers reading what people expect, following through in the small ways that build trust fast, and earning respect without agreeing to everything. It sits under Work relationships in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to build stronger working relationships on a new team. Help me understand expectations, follow through reliably, and earn trust without trying to please everyone.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.