Coaching New Hires
28mBeginner2021-04-16
Authors

Jenny Blake
Career Strategist, Speaker, Author
Course details
Welcoming a new team member can involve excitement and nerves—on both sides. This course helps managers find ways to help new team members acclimate to their new responsibilities, workplace, culture, technology, and more. Learn how to align their new role with existing strengths and vision for success. Explore how to map their first 90 days and the next year of growth and impact. Discover how to guide your employee in finding the right new skills, people, and projects to aid their learning. Learn about small, calculated risks and stretch projects that your new hire can take on. Find out how to start your new team member on safe-to-try projects where they can build confidence while making an immediate impact. Get tips on how to establish a cadence for quarterly check-ins and informal conversations with your team members. In conclusion, find out how to adopt three new strategies for empowering and connecting with your team members.
Skills covered
Coaching and MentoringLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome hires with curiosity coaching and encouragement
Onboarding for Success
- Create a new hire onboarding checklist
- Integrate new hires by creating a context for coaching
- Quick wins Empower your new hire to make an impact
Connect and Engage with a Pivot Plan
- Plant 90-day and one-year vision for onboarding success
- Scan For people skills and projects in the new role
- Pilot Identify small experiments for your new hire to tackle while onboarding
- Launch Powerful questions to wrap new hire onboarding
Checking In Keeping an Open Line of Communication
- Stay connected through formal and informal career check-ins
- Encourage transparency and celebrate the inevitable mistakes in new hire onboarding
- Avoid three common coaching mistakes when onboarding new hires