Thinking of increasing your team by one?  Here are some questions your new team member should be able to answer in order to get up and running quickly:

  • Who’s in charge?
  • Who’s my mentor?
  • Who will I work with?
    • What do they do?
    • When are they available?
    • How will we communicate on a daily basis?
  • What are my high-level job activities?
    • What should I focus on first?
    • What deadlines do I have?
    • What known roadblocks already exist in my workload?
  • Where is company knowledge stored?
  • How much leverage do I have to do my job?
Most of these questions are company specific, except maybe the last one.  Hopefully, you give all your team members wide leverage to try new things and get their job done.  Otherwise, maybe you should be asking yourself one important question: Why did I hire this guy?
-Deborah Fike

 

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