Setting Up For Success!
How to set up your new starters for success!
New year, new me! I’ve heard that phrase far too many times over the year, but as the new year comes in, we’ve thought about other ‘new’ things that are happening right now. One such thing is your new recruits joining you! We’ve had a fair few candidates starting with clients this January, so we’ve put together a little blog on how to set up your new starters for success!
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Giving them the right tools and training
Make sure your new employee is fully trained and supported within their new role, it takes time and effort, and some areas will be trickier to teach than others. However, perseverance and a rock solid training plan is key here. Something that is also accessible when you’re not around, so the employee can refer back to it and not need to ask quite so many questions. Legally you must provide a job description, and this is a great way to give your new employee a detailed breakdown of their duties. This way they will know what to do and you will be confident knowing he or she is doing their job correctly.
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Question Master
On the topic of questions, ensure you’re encouraging them – the more people ask, the more they will learn, the less likely they are to feel under pressure to ‘go it alone’ and hazard a wrong guess.
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Office Environment
Now we’re not saying redecorate the office for each new starter. Just the small basics will do, ensuring their desk is clean, and you have supplied them with the right tools. Perhaps even a welcome basket. After all, if they have the right tools within the right environment the job will be done better!
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Ensure a wider view
Start with introducing a new employee to the different departments and teams, ensuring that other employees know their name. Explain different career paths, introduce them to people who used to do what they do and encourage existing employees to inform your new employee further so different views and opinions can be heard. This is such an easy step but it can allow your new employee to understand how they contribute to the company and where their career could go, giving them a long term view, and gaining their commitment from the get go.
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Celebrate when they successfully tackle tasks
A new person may feel intimidated by all the things that they don’t know which may lead to feeling overwhelmed and feeling like they’ll never master it, making them have a bit of a wobble, thinking if the job is right for them after all. Therefore, it’s your job to celebrate not just the big milestones, but the little every day achievements, providing encouragement on successfully completing tasks they struggled with previously, reminding them how far they have already come.
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Show how collaboration and cooperation with teams has brilliant benefits
In their first year, an employee will take time to get to grips with what each individual does in the business. Encouraging them to build relationships with people, so they have all skill areas to ask for advice, will not only strengthen their knowledge, but the smooth running of the business. It also gives them the opportunity to enhance their skill set and feel encouraged to grow further.
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Give them a reason to love their work
What better way to engage people, than letting them know that what they are doing is valued and critical to the success of the business. In order to inspire a first year worker to do their best in their new role, it is crucial to underline how critical their role is to the success of the company. By giving the individual purpose, they will be aware that they are working for something bigger than themselves.
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Take time to give constructive feedback and genuine appreciation
Your positive, gentle, constructive feedback can allow your employee to focus on the work at hand even if he or she does feel overwhelmed or lost at the enormity of their workload. It can allow them to know that they are being noticed and being helped to better themselves and their work. This can be done so easily but is forgotten about so often. Make a point of publicly passing along your appreciation of a job well done – this appreciation, support, inspiration and coaching is what helps to turn your first year employee into a second, third, fourth, fifth and beyond year employee!
So there you have it, how to set up your new starters for success, and turn them into long term employees!
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