Executing a presidential transition involves establishing key goals and organizing the infrastructure necessary to achieve them, including:

• Staffing the White House and the Executive Office of the President, developing a functional decision-making structure and preparing to assume governing responsibility

• Making more than 4,000 presidential appointments, roughly 1,000 of which require Senate confirmation

• Getting up to speed on more than 100 federal agencies and organizing and training leadership teams for each

• Building a full policy platform for the new administration and planning executive actions, a management agenda, a budget proposal and potential legislation to implement those policies

• Preparing a 100- to 200-day plan for executing the policies laid out by the president during the campaign and getting the new administration off to a quick start

• Developing a strategy for communicating with the American people, Congress, the media, political appointees, the federal workforce and other stakeholders