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Strategies for your first 3 month in your new job

teacher avatar Silvia Sanchez, Consultant UX Designer

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      01 Intro

      1:30

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      02 Give a good impression 1

      3:51

    • 3.

      03 Your first steps

      2:27

    • 4.

      04 Start adding value

      2:18

    • 5.

      05 Make yourself seen

      2:42

    • 6.

      06 Reflection time

      3:32

    • 7.

      07 What happens after the first 3 months

      1:32

    • 8.

      08 Summary

      0:53

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About This Class

The first 3 months of a new job are crucial. It's an exciting time but also a scary time.

In this course, we will learn how to build a plan for your first 3 months, how to connect with colleagues, clarify expectations and what to do if things are not as expected.

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Silvia Sanchez

Consultant UX Designer

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I'm a UX Consultant passionate about communication. I have been working with startups, global organizations within the travel industry, education and financial sector and public services.

 

My main goal and enthusiasm in UX are to understand client’s challenges and find solutions that engage them with high-converting experiences that meet the needs and user’s interests. I even run my own product so I understand the business struggles first hand!


I’m a passionate and creative person who likes to lives out of my comfort zone. I always try to put myself in other shoes as I believe that’s the start of a good relationship.

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1. 01 Intro: Congratulations on your new job. Starting a new job, it's always overwhelming. It's a range of emotions like excitement, relief, or uncertainty all at once. You may also wondering about your new team, about how it's going to be the tasks you do day by day. Or maybe if you're going to make a good impression. Just so you know, it takes between 36 months for a new joiner to be fully productive. In this course, you will learn, build a plan for your next 90 days in your new job. Learn how to take the ownership on your first 90 days at a company. Identify and connect with key stakeholders, clarify expectations, and adapt to the new culture. And the last one, what you can do if things are not as expected. Through this course, you will know that the most important advice that you are not expect to go in and know everything. Our focus will be into listening, observing, and understanding. I'm Sylvia and together you and I, we're going to learn what to do in the first three months in a new company. 2. 02 Give a good impression 1: You've done all the hard work. You have the job. Now you have the opportunity to learn to implement it. And the most important part to show what you made off to deliver results. The most important relationships at work is the one you develop with your manager or boss. With time you monitor will be able to answer these questions. Can they trust you? They know they can always get straight answer from you. Even if it means that you need to add meat that you mess up. Are you respectful of their position in the company? Can they count on you to produce a resource? They asked for a word you said you will produce on time. Are you someone who gets the job done? And do they have confidence in your ability to do so? Here is a truth. When your manager is involved in you, they tend to give you only 60% of the information you need to be successful at your work. And then we'll fairly thing that they give you the whole information you need to be successful. This happens because they forget what it means to be a new joiner. But you probably think like, what about then the other 40%, where it comes from? The answer that it comes from your questions. As human beings, we may think that probably because we are a little bit scared to ask questions and look bad. But let's remember no question. It's okay not to know things. But let's not wait for that information to be delivered twice. It'll be eager to learn and to ask questions. Along the way. You need to be proactively asking questions to your manager and coworkers to fill in the blanks. Here, the four questions you should ask your manager in the first meeting together. Wish will have focused on accomplish in my first week on the new job. It's important to understand what success looks like your new role, how performance is measured. Tools we'll use. When will I be able to have access to them? Where can I find documentation about this project? What expectations do you have for my first week? It's important to set baseline expectations at the beginning. It easy for your manager or your new colleague to forget to give you access to things. But by your asking, you make sure that at the end of the meeting you have all the access and tools you need as you establish a good working relationship with your boss. Here are the three things to remember. Sketch of time every week or every two weeks to exchange ideas and discuss any questions or specific cities you have. So would've you know exactly what needs to be done and by when. Look for ways to make your manager boss lives easier and discipline needs and operate efficiently. Inform your manager about what's been done. What is it still being a handle on any problems that need solving? You want to be looked at as a person who is honest, accurate, and efficient. So always focus on accomplishments and the Azores. These three things will provide the foundation for your success. Your manager will be able to trust you and to count on you, to be someone who consistently the little birds. You should go to your new role with the expectation that you will do a lot of self-study. If you're in a junior roles, the expectation is the manager is going to have a plan for you. But if you're in a higher vol, most of the time, they expanded that you come up with your own goals. 3. 03 Your first steps: At the new job, he should spend the first month heavily focusing on meeting people as your manager, your new colleagues for ideas of who you should speak with. So the idea is that the first 13 days you understand the business and a speed with as many people as possible. As you introduce, try to remember people's names and their role, especially if you remember your working closely with them. One way to do this is using a metric or stakeholder map. What is this means is that you draw a map. I started writing down the roles for a damper manager. Then you start to see how they are connected with other people in that company. They this through a listening tour. What I mean by this is trying to speak with as many people as possible to build connections and get valuable information. One of the ways you could do this is to send a message, a message like this. Hi there. I recently started in the company as a UX designer. Helen mentioned, I should arrange time with you to discuss what you do January and to get to know each other. Would you let me know when you have 30 minutes? Try to listen actively and make notes. These are always important for them. For goals, they have any deadlines, priorities, or issues. And the most important part. So what they expect about you and your role, you can also try to come up with ways you can help them. If you have an assigned a buddy, ask each heart or your team if you can have one bunny to help you out to answer all the questions you have at the beginning of the journey. Set up a time with them and gather all the questions you have. So you don't feel you're bothering them all the time. With time, you will see that you create personal connection with them. It's important to realize that success in your workplace. It doesn't only come from your work. A huge part has to be the relationship with your team. If you have a really good relation with your teams, you will see how your success will be higher and faster. 4. 04 Start adding value: As we've been saying, your goal for the first 30 days is to learn as much as you can and to build credibility, personal credibility in the company. But what about what happened next? Well, next is about implementing of the conversation. Your hat. This is the moment where you start implementing. Your manager and colleagues had we're having conversation with them. The leaves, are you still learning, but you will do so in a slightly quicker rate. It's important and this is stage you had been practicing, building personal credibility, developing key relationships. This both the strategies will help you to get immediate wins. Now, it's the time to identify opportunities and implement ideas that came from your boss, colleagues, etc. I know I did a stage. You will find the assignment to add value and add the best you can for the company. But donors pepper faction from your colleagues or yourself. If you find things you don't like, you may follow these steps. First, speaker, an employee who's picked up and notice things during the first three months is seen as insightful and a breath of fresh air. Second, fun ways to add value. Your job is to have your eyes open and be ready to find. One needs to be address. Third, anticipate problems and then come with solutions. Instead of simply getting assignments from your manager, think through the impact of those actions. The last one, document all your wins and knowledge, as well as any problems you have. Don't aim to know everything and everything in the first three months. Trying to do too much, too quickly, it will put you under pressure. Just be really thick and focus on things that matter. And remember, it's completely normal to start a job with some areas for growth. 5. 05 Make yourself seen: The more you can own your first few moles. I know waiting for information and direction, the faster you will grow your career ladder. Letting this episode, how can we do this? Following the book from Harvey common in his book, empowering yourself. The organization or game reveal. Give us a framework of pi. We just have four, performance, image and exposure. We know that P stands for performance and that count 10% of your success. Then we also have a stands for image that's 30% of your success. You meant, means how you're being perceived by your colleagues. And lastly, we have E, exposure. That can't 60% of your career success. Exposure is how much they know your colleagues know about your work and how much value you're adding to the company. As you can see, image and exposure comes 90 per cent of your career success. Let's see in the next videos, how can you improve image and exposure? As we said, image means how you are perceived by their colleagues you work with. To start with, it's important to have personal relationships with them. Some tips or take time to get to know as many people as you can your first few month so that they have a positive impression of you, are more likely to go to you for help or advice and answers. Take an interest in what your coworkers are working on. Find ways to proactively help your colleagues. So now we understand how important the images. Let's explore the next one, exposure. This means that people understand what you have work on and how you work contributes to the company. So the main thing for this is to celebrate your wins with your colleagues. Even if they are small wins. Gift colors to your colleagues. Present work that you and the team. Hassan. Be sure to focus your effort not only the performance section, but also in the image and exposure. Specifically at the beginning of your journey, will set the tone and the first embrasure as a new joiner. 6. 06 Reflection time: For this episode, we'll learn how to find time to reflect and proactively look for areas to grow. It's important to take time to reflect. A good tip at the beginning of your journey is to create a 15 minutes time. Your calendar at the end of each word gouache. For this reflection time, you can think about how you feel so far. Excited, confident. If so, why? What has bother you so far? What has gone well or poorly? Which interactions will you handled differently if you could have achieved or the liver was the most important for the next week. So the idea is that at the end of the week, you have the time to reflect on key moments. Write down a few successes and learning, and one goal for your week ahead. One way to identify skill gaps is to use the three I's. Identify, ideate, and implement it. Identify the goal of this section is to identify the goals you need to achieve in your new role. I did. The goal here is to come up with several ways to level up your skill gaps. This could be solutions like doing research, how being a co-worker or a specific task, or doing some training. Implement. For this one, the goal is to settle on how you will build these skills. This could be one of your professional development goals. Then understand what skills you will require to accomplish them. This will come from discussing objectives with your manager and coworkers, reviewing the job description and a starting any documentation for your role, if there is any. Now I've been talking how exciting it is to find a new job and start a new job. But what about if you can enjoy that much? If you think there's something not right. The truth is, is that you probably only going to know that when you're there, just doing the work and meeting everyone. For many reasons. Maybe it could be the culture of the company. It could be the work itself or maybe the times. But if you feel are starting to feel that way, You need to stop and reflect. What is that you don't like from that job. It's important that if you have all these thoughts around this company is not for me and don't see myself in this company. Write down everything. You see the task that you are not enjoying. The team. Is it your manager? Is it the company itself? Or maybe the culture of the company? Get all your thoughts down on paper. And Lisa thing that you can control or even influence. And then rightly so the thing that you know, you just can't control. Remember, you always have choices. Now is the time to reflect and think. Can I overcome this? Remember, there is no perfect job. There's always things that you're probably not going to like from the jobs, except if you're really, really lucky. But let's think about it. Try to reflect on full time into it. Maybe it is something that you even can improve and add value in the company. 7. 07 What happens after the first 3 months: I'm going to predict the future and say that the examined you have, you will be disappearing after the theorem one. You may also lose a bit of productivity. In this episode, I will show you how to keep the momentum life with some tips. To keep this momentum alive, I suggest you block some time in your calendar twice yourself. These questions, are there any co-workers or people in my network that I should check in on. Your moment to quickly refer connect. The second question is, How am I doing on my goals? These a moment to track any progress on your goals and also realigned with them. The third one will be at the right meetings on my calendar. Which meetings should be removed? And who in the business should you start having more touch points with? Do I know when the new performance conversation is? Maybe it's an official time or maybe there's no official process. And you asked for one. We always want to be learning and growing. The last 01:00, AM I following the goals I set up at the beginning of the job? All these questions will help you out to make sure you keep on track and keep alive that momentum. As we said, it's likely that you feel comfortable with your basic responsibilities at this point. So it's important that you reflect on what you've been learning. So you can create and write your new goals. 8. 08 Summary: If you're going to accompany that you are working with colleagues or your span, you might be feeling, I'm not ready, I'm not good enough. All of these feelings are normal and how they call our learning fillings. And by the way, That doesn't mean that you're not good enough. It just means that you are still in the mindset of learning. Another thing to have in mind is that be ready to see mistakes and problems in the company. No company is perfect. There's always room for improvement. On my last advice, don't expect perfection from others or yourself. Everyone is learning as they go, focused on what you're doing or you enjoy your learning. Good luck.