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Career Development,Soft Skills

New Job — Becoming Part of a Close-Knit Team

How to communicate with colleagues and your boss when you are a new employee

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What you will get:

Get tips to help you get through your onboarding crisis in a short time.
Determine the goals for the probation period.
Find out what will help you or, conversely, become an obstacle on the way to successful communication and trusting relationship with the manager.
Examine the list of toxic thoughts and actions that can hurt your boss.
Learn and understand the types of behaviours that will be negatively perceived in any team.

About this course

Perhaps you are looking for a new job or are just planning to change your current one. Keep in mind that passing an interview and getting a job offer is only half the battle. The main challenge lies ahead. You have to blend into a new team and be accepted as part of it. Our online course will help you successfully tackle this challenge!

When you start working for a company, you need to become a fixture. It is not for nothing that employers set probationary periods for newcomers, as well as when employees take a new position within the company. A study conducted in 2020 in Russia showed that when onboarding, people are more scared of not hitting it off with the team and the boss. At the same time, employees under the age of twenty-five are afraid of not becoming a fixture in the company more than others. And on the contrary, those who are over forty-five are sure that they will not have any difficulties with onboarding.

So what should you do and how should you behave to blend into the team? You will receive tips to help you get through the onboarding crisis in a short time. Speakers will tell you what will help you or, conversely, become an obstacle on the way to successful communication and trusting relationship with the leader. You will learn about those patterns of behaviour that will be negatively perceived in any team. You will receive recommendations that will help you get a foot in the door as a leader and safely become part of the team. You will also understand how to give feedback correctly. We will discuss how the so-called "agile" skills, that is, soft skills can help you successfully fit into a new company, and how to develop them.

The acquired knowledge and skills will help you adapt to the new team. You will be able to build long-term relationships with colleagues and your boss. This will help you become part of any team, develop together with it, and enjoy the workflow!

Course structure

Lesson 1. How to behave during the first week

22:20 min
1 quiz
1 case
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A study conducted in 2020 in Russia showed that when onboarding, people are more scared of not hitting it off with the team and the boss. At the same time, employees under the age of twenty-five are afraid of not becoming a fixture in the company more than others. And on the contrary, those who are over forty-five are sure that they will not have any difficulties with onboarding. So what should you do and how should you behave to fit in? In this lesson, you will learn how to properly do it. You will receive tips to help you get through the onboarding crisis in a short time.

In the additional materials, you will discover how to determine the goals for the probation period. You will receive information from the book of a professional consultant called "Discovering the Organisations of the Future." It describes five types of organisations and assigns specific colours to each type.

Lesson 2. How to talk to your boss

9:50 min
1 quiz
1 case
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Employees need to know general characteristics of their manager's character and behaviour to properly build communication with them and avoid conflict. When onboarding, try to learn the traits, habits, and interests of your boss as quickly as possible. In some situations, try to understand their logic, why they got angry, became happy, or did not pay attention to something. In this lesson, we will tell you what will help you or, conversely, become an obstacle on the way to successful communication and trusting relationship with your boss.

Additionally, you will receive a checklist of important work points. You will be able to add something to it as you take up the position. You will also learn about the four stages that you have to go through.

Lesson 3. How to win over your colleagues

12:40 min
1 quiz
1 case
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Everyone has a need for self-identification, feeling like a part of a certain community. The members of our group seem to us to be more understandable, likeable, and we can kind of predict their behaviour. We don't judge our own, and sometimes we turn a blind eye to their shortcomings or mistakes.

What do you need to do to blend into a new workplace? To do this, you need to know some nuances of human behaviour and take certain steps in accordance with them. In this lesson, you will learn more about them. We will tell you about those behavioural patterns that will be negatively perceived in any team. You will find out how to get out of them.

Additionally, you will learn about the differences between generations.

Lesson 4. How a manager can become part of the team

12:51 min
1 quiz
1 case
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Changing the head of a department is stressful for a newcomer and the entire team. The newly appointed department head is not always able to quickly come to an understanding with all team members. Sometimes it even takes more than a few months. Employees associate a change in leadership with inevitable changes in established norms and rules. Therefore, often the new boss and their innovations are perceived with hostility, even if they are rational and justified. This happens because managers do not know how to be accepted as one of an unfamiliar team, how to build relationships with subordinates and gain their trust.

A few tips from this lesson will help you avoid mistakes and safely become part of the team.

In the additional materials, you will be able to look through a list of toxic thoughts and actions that can harm the boss. You will also receive a list of phrases that you cannot say to your employees.

Lesson 5. How to receive and give feedback

13:08 min
1 quiz
1 case
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Any team member needs to receive timely feedback. It is a great and often the only way to learn about your strengths and weaknesses. The main purpose of feedback is to jointly work out a solution to an issue, correct mistakes, or reinforce behaviours that lead to high results. Discuss specific facts and actions that the other person can change. Feedback will be constructive and helpful if given promptly, in private, and in a friendly manner. You should understand where you make mistakes or don't meet requirements, and when you are doing the job perfectly. And you will learn about this in the course of this lesson.

Additionally, you will discover how to respond to negative feedback.

Lesson 6. What agile skills you should develop

10:09 min
1 quiz
1 case
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Agile, or, soft skills help to adapt in any team. To successfully join the ranks of a new company, you need seven of them: positive thinking, teamwork skills, flexibility, sociability, assertiveness, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. In this lesson, we will delve deeper into each of the skills and how to develop them.

Additionally, you will be able to study the agile skill development wheel.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate in your email. It will confirm the knowledge and skills you will have acquired.

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