by Martin Yate
20. July 2009 12:03
| All too often we join a new company and in an effort to make a powerful impression, we achieve the opposite. Here are some strategies that just might help you avoid cranial-rectal inversion in your first months at that opportunity of a lifetime... and any job might turn into the opportunity of a lifetime if you play it right.
Don't try to change the world before you know the way to the restroom. No matter what apparent madness you see in the early days at the new company, trust that there is often some sound reasoning behind it; after all the paychecks don't bounce, so they must be doing something right.
- Your first task is to learn how best to execute your job in this environment
- Your second task is to establish good relationships with everyone who can affect your work
- Your third task is to gain a firm grasp on how and why things get done the way they do here
- Your fourth task is to identify the hierarchy and how it really works
- Your fifth task is to identify the Inner Circle players, those most respected professionals in the different departments with which you interact
God gave you one mouth and two ears. For your first few months on a new job you would do well to use them in the correct proportions. You want to be seen as a conscientious professional, a good-natured team player, someone always ready to lend a hand no matter what the job at hand, and someone who listens to advice and is gracious with thanks. Of course how you act on the advice proffered will depend on the source.
Get your feet on the ground. You need time to get to know the company, its services and its people while in turn those people need to get to know you. If you arrive and immediately begin re-inventing the company, it will be seen as arrogance......Read More
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Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Business Bestseller
10 books in 25 languages
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