Out of the office
Recruitment
Help your newbies build connections with the team socially as well as professionally.
- It might not sit on the official plan, but make sure that any onboarding process includes some socialisation with the team as a whole.
- Lunches together, drinks after work, coffee with each member of the team: make sure that there’s time (and money) behind it, and help the team build new stories and experiences together.
- Take the time to explain the in-jokes and back stories. They won’t be anything like as amusing to an outsider, but at least they’ll have some idea of what’s going on.
- If you’re onboarding a new manager, make sure you give them space to put their own stamp on their team. By all means join some of the social events - but don’t attend all of them. Give your new manager the space to build their own relationship with their team, and set create the culture they’re looking for as well.
When to take this action
This action is from 'Make room for newbies' and should be used when you have new people on your team, when you're hiring, when you want your team to gel
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When you're onboarding new hires
Incoming newbie!
Use an onboarding plan to keep track of who your newbies needs to connect with, and have your team help with onboarding too.