(originally published May 4th, 2005)<\/p>\n
How do you welcome new employees to the fold, whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re management or a co-worker? Are you sincerely friendly and helpful, or a little weary of what you might be getting?<\/p>\n
I ask this question because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve recently experienced the tale of two cities, so to speak. As a consultant, I never know what kind of reception I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to get whenever I go into a company. On my previous contract, the management staff I had to work with was very hesitant in accepting me into their fold. When one encounters resistance, it just makes getting into the swing of things very difficult. If I were a regular employee, I might feel as though I weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t welcome, and that I might not be at this job very long.<\/p>\n
On my new contract, I walked in and was welcomed immediately. I was asked to contribute within two hours of my arriving, and people were listening to every word I had to say. I was accepted as one of them, something that rarely happens. If I were a regular employee, I would feel as though this was a place I wanted to be at for a very long time, and I was going to make sure that if anything ever happened negatively for the company, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to be because of anything I did.<\/p>\n
Everyone has ulterior motives, to some degree. Are you going to make sure that yours will impart a positive, or negative, effect on others? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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