49. Playing the Long Game or How To Join a New Team

If you have a job right now, then at some point you’ve joined a new team. If you’ve been at that job for a while, you may have forgotten how stressful and overwhelming joining a new team can be.

Joining a new team can be a lot to handle. So this week, Derek and Jeremy review some tips and tricks to make that onboarding process a little bit easier.

And if you’re on the other side, as part of the team that someone new is joining, you can reverse engineer these things to help facilitate that onboarding experience to make this transition as smooth as possible for you.

Topics:
• 02:32 – Understand the environment
• 04:32 – Learn the business’ business
• 06:04 – Learn the players
• 09:21 – Learn the game
• 11:32 – Draw out the organization how you see it in your head
• 14:08 – Questions are your weapon
• 20:16 – Be intentional about what you’re doing
• 21:53 – What would your grandpa do?
• 27:10 – When in doubt, tickle?

Helpful Links:
• The Crazy One – Ep 118. The best remote team building activities
• The Product Design Podcast – Ep 16 Jesse Showalter – Skills that will take you further than talent

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