How To On-Board a New Employee Effectively with Colin Boyd

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How To On-Board a New Employee Effectively is a short an insightful video which will explain the 3 crucial needs that you must meet when a new employee starts.

Recently, I had one of my clients ask me in a workshop that I was running around Emotional Intelligence: “Colin, what’s most important when someone starts new in the organisation? What are the most important needs that you need to consider to make sure that they’re onboard smoothly?”

What I want to share with you today is a really important insight. This insight will help you if you’re a leader or a manager of people. Specifically, it will help you in the way of how you engage new employees when they first start on the job. Many times when a new employee starts, they’re doing their best with what they know. I trust that you remember the first time that you started in the role that you’re in right now. There’s a lot of uncertainty, you’re unsure about how far you can push your ideas, you’re unsure about how much you can speak up in meetings and what the culture is like. You’ve got a whole lot of things going on in your world.

I want to share with you these three things that I think are crucial for you as a manager to meet in a new employee.

1. Certainty
At the core of who everyone is, we have a need for certainty. When you start a new job or a new role, certainty is going to be fairly low for the person. In other words, everything is kinda new. It might be a new start time, new employees, new job description, a new way to work. You’ve got to make sure you meet their need for certainty when they first start, and how you do that is simply by having a conversation with them about their role and their goals, and just making them feel comfortable.

2. Significance
Every human being has a need to be needed. The need for significance is kinda like the need to feel important. When you start in a role, you’re questioning, “Do these people value me? Do these people value what I have to share and say?” As a leader and a manager, I would encourage you to make sure that you acknowledge people and appreciate them. Especially when they are starting in a new role, you make them feel like they are a contributor and they are significant. I love Simon Sinek’s idea around leadership — it isn’t so much about making people servants as it is about making people allies. Partnering with people and treating them like human beings give people significance.

3. Connection
At the core of every human being is a need to feel related and feel like we’re connected to people and our environment. Making sure that you’re authentic and open with people, and sharing a little bit of your personal life will make people feel connected to the organisation and to you as the team.

The three ideas are certainty, significance and connection.

If you can meet those three needs, it will make a significant difference in making sure that that employee gets plugged into your organisation, onboard and producing results faster.

QUESTION: What’s your favorite way of making a new starter or new employee feel welcome? Share comments on the blog.

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Colin Boyd
High-Performance Leadership Expert
colinboyd.com.au
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