A NEW EMPLOYEE WILL ADAPT

Getting a new member on board can be exciting and rewarding. It’s exciting because, to meet the needs of the company or the team, you need more brains to assist with the workload. Some staff members might see it as an opportunity to relax a little since the new employee will take away some of the workload, but this is not always the case. New employee means that the company has been growing and to meet the clients’ needs it has to hire more help. The new member is good news for everyone; including the employee who thinks his/her work assignments will become less. It’s good because the new employee is a good indication that the company has more pecuniary resources at its disposal. With that said, your employer shouldn’t have any second thoughts about giving you a raise or bonus at the end of the year, as long as you excel at your current tasks and go beyond your regular call of duty. Nevertheless, the focus of this letter is to bring to your awareness how a new employee adapts and what you can learn.Having a new employee on board adds to the dynamics of the overall culture within your company. You as a staff, without a supervisory title or above, might not have played any role in selecting the new member. You just received whomever those with managerial titles add to the team. During the orientation period, the new staff member will be very formal at first despite his or her personality until they break out of their integuments. If you look closely, this breaking out of the shell doesn’t happen in one day, it happens imperceptibly. The relationship between workers will be very polished and great but after the acclimatization period ends it becomes less formal.For example, if you manage a website and submit problems you encounter, you’ll notice that the new employee will swiftly address anything you present. After about 5-6 months, you’ll notice how the employee slowly adjusts once he/she becomes more familiar with how the team works. When this happens, the real person begins to appear through the cracks.The real person has to come forth because keeping up with the demands of pressures and formalities can be suffocating. It becomes more evident when your role depends on working with that employee. If you continue to report problems, during that period, you begin to see the personality of the team start to surface through this new employee’s attitude. It happens because the new employee slowly adapted to the culture. If the team doesn’t respond to requests in a timely fashion, it will show in the new member because he/she will eventually adapt. Usually, it’s a clear reflection of the individual who is the principal of the team.Once the team is dealing with you directly and doesn’t have to deal with external clients, they’ll try to treat you less respectably than they would a client. They have become too familiar with you and your bugs. In most cases, they want to do something else. If you report a problem, they’ll pass it on to someone else and before this period this same employee used to be more responsive by attending to your request promptly. If you are not a respectable professional, you might adapt to new measures to get your requests done especially when the team is telling you one thing and senior management another. You know something is wrong when the team is meeting privately with different leaders to discuss the problems you presented and then meeting covertly with you. In other words, they are behaving like a spring that produces hot and cold water at the same time. They say one thing to your supervisor and another to you.Having two separate meetings is very deceptive. It’s deceptive because you’re not able to witness and address any flaw they might present to the leader of the team. Because the new employee has adapted the ‘bacteria’ that have been undermining the camaraderie of the team and how they relate to you. When this happens, don’t conform to peripheral pressures. Just remain respectful and continue to submit your requests through the appropriate channels. Your goal is to pleasure your supervisor (or HR) by being persistent in fulfilling your tasks to foster an impeccable relationship with your colleagues. If no one is honest, you want to remain honest. If no one is respectful, it’s incumbent upon you to remain respectful even when the deception is luminous.When this happens, you have just become aware of the personality of your colleagues. You have to maintain your composure within the office and continue to treat everyone with equal respect. It’s okay to be adaptable only when you’re adapting to something that is very respectful and doesn’t violate the trust or invoke negative conformity within the profession. So if you’ve been working with a team for a long time and the culture is not that evident, pay attention to new employees when they arrive. Being observant can be very informative if you care about working, helping, and meeting the team’s or company’s overall goals. You remain professional and respectful because according to T. Harv Eker, “How you do anything is how you do everything.”