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Joining a New Team as a Leader
Make it less awkward and more fun.
“Hi, I am ZZ. I am your new manager.” Smiley face.
How to make the introduction less awkward? And no, don’t do team meeting rounds of ‘Tell me one fun fact about yourself’. Gosh, someone still does it?
Andrea wondered how to get to know her new team. She joined a new company as a manager, and wanted to make it smooth and natural.
Being new, she expected people would not trust her. Why would they? They did not know her. She was thinking how to let them get to know her. Yet, she could not come up with a good idea.
Being vulnerable? Telling them what was important for her? Direct them first before giving them freedome? She was puzzled.
How do you get to know others and start building trust with your team when you are new?
Team games that everyone dreads
Here is my list of annoying team activities that are supposed to help your team get to know each other:
- Introduce yourself during team meetings (“I am a project manager in the company X years, blah blah.)
- Say one fun fact about you (“I eat a bar of chocolate after lunch, haha.” Weird no?)
- Say three things about you…
