Integrate Quickly or Disintegrate Slowly...
28 July 2011
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You've just arrived in a new work environment? Perfect. Your first mission, if you accept it: go through the doors. The big one, that's done. Let's see the small ones now. And its rules of admission.
Rule #1: Discover the Company
Discovering a company is not just about knowing the numbers and curves, it's also about quickly appropriating its verbal jargon, its dress codes, its time imperatives, its assigned places, etc... You enter a company as you enter a religion: you must learn to master the rules of the place.
Rule #2: Avoid Making Noise
Avoid playing Batman from the start, it's better for everyone but especially for you. They would clip your bat wings very quickly. So think about avoiding the "I used to work like this, it was much more efficient" or "your tool is really not suitable, I have the solution!"
Remaining modest is exhausting for your ego, of course, but it is essential for your longevity. Humble or out, you have to choose.
Rule #3: Get out of yourself and go towards the Other
Not being marginal, not playing the lone cowboy, is also knowing how to greet people in the hallways, chat a little with everyone, not eating alone, like a barbarian, at your desk but with the team or at least, with some members; it's bringing croissants to your neighbor in the blue blouse because she seems approachable and smiling. A croissant that can pay off big time.
No odious calculation here: relationships are cultivated!
Rule #4: Feedback
See your manager after a few weeks - three seems to be a perfectly correct number - to discuss your relationships and your new role, it's useful, even life-saving. This allows you to know what has been done and above all to regain control, if necessary.
Feedback is modern and like croissants and the lottery, it can pay off big time.
Rule #5: Respect the previous rules...
...In patience and modesty, preferably not simulated.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
Posted on July 28, 2011.
Rule #1: Discover the Company
Discovering a company is not just about knowing the numbers and curves, it's also about quickly appropriating its verbal jargon, its dress codes, its time imperatives, its assigned places, etc... You enter a company as you enter a religion: you must learn to master the rules of the place.
Rule #2: Avoid Making Noise
Avoid playing Batman from the start, it's better for everyone but especially for you. They would clip your bat wings very quickly. So think about avoiding the "I used to work like this, it was much more efficient" or "your tool is really not suitable, I have the solution!"
Remaining modest is exhausting for your ego, of course, but it is essential for your longevity. Humble or out, you have to choose.
Rule #3: Get out of yourself and go towards the Other
Not being marginal, not playing the lone cowboy, is also knowing how to greet people in the hallways, chat a little with everyone, not eating alone, like a barbarian, at your desk but with the team or at least, with some members; it's bringing croissants to your neighbor in the blue blouse because she seems approachable and smiling. A croissant that can pay off big time.
No odious calculation here: relationships are cultivated!
Rule #4: Feedback
See your manager after a few weeks - three seems to be a perfectly correct number - to discuss your relationships and your new role, it's useful, even life-saving. This allows you to know what has been done and above all to regain control, if necessary.
Feedback is modern and like croissants and the lottery, it can pay off big time.
Rule #5: Respect the previous rules...
...In patience and modesty, preferably not simulated.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
Posted on July 28, 2011.
