Dear People,
A new director has come to work at a client organization. He comes from many years at one company in a similar business. We hired him because he has great ideas; we believe he can help make the company even more profitable. He is an outsider who brings a new perspective to the managers and directors who were "raised" internally.
But there is a catch to being the "new" person. You walk a fine line between bringing new ideas as you understand the culture and the current status of the workplace, projects, ideas, dreams, hopes and goals and coming off as a "know-it-all" who doesn't listen.
My current new director is slipping a bit in this last category. He has lots of ideas and he broaches them - and this is what we want from him over time. But, he is giving little credit to the possibility that people have had these ideas or similar, and just not implemented them due to resource constraints, their importance and priority on the timeline, where the company is relative to where it needs to be, how far the company has come in the past couple of years and more.
It's the standard, fine line new people walk in their new organizations. I need to write about this.
In the meantime, this resource will help you with new employee orientation which I'll talk about tomorrow.
Warmly,
Susan
12:21:09 AM
Integrating the New 
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