From the course: Coaching New Hires
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Encourage transparency and celebrate the inevitable mistakes in new hire onboarding
From the course: Coaching New Hires
Encourage transparency and celebrate the inevitable mistakes in new hire onboarding
- Your new hire has just successfully pivoted into a new role on your team. Given that they may be hesitant to bring up much of anything in their first weeks and months on the job, because they want to make a good first impression. One of the best things you can do when coaching new hires is encourage them to talk about what's on their minds particularly tougher topics like failures, sticking points and what they're learning from both of those things along the way. In his book, "What You Do Is Who You Are" venture capitalists, Ben Horowitz shares his philosophy on how critical it is for culture building to openly ask team members, not just what's going right but what's going wrong in their work. What's on fire. What's getting out of control. To this end, his first book is aptly titled "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" in which he outlines all the things that can go wrong in a company and how to address them as a…
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