When we have just started a new job out newness is like a vast, shiny halo, surrounding us and making us feel very visible to everyone we now work with. They all seem so confident of their place and what we are doing while we stumble about trying to find out feet.
After getting the really important basics out of the way – where are the toilets, which way to the coffee machine and what is the done thing – we can sometimes use our newness to ask the obvious questions but mainly we want to rub it off as quickly as possible.
But the shine from our own newness can blind us to the fact that there is something new going on for everyone else too. They are having to get used to us.
Peers, team, superiors….the dynamics of many groups are affected by the arrival of someone new. New relationships are being built and developed and at least some of the old order is crumbling.
If you asked yourself ‘How can my arrival encourage new connections among the people around me?’ what would you learn that could help you build these new relationships?
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