The person is so suited that any vital changes for him are almost always a stress. Change of a situation, new conditions of accommodation, new people and circumstances force our mentality to turn on protection mechanisms. And sometimes they play not the best role in our life. A striking example of such situation is the first day in new collective. Practically everyone faced such experiences when it is impossible to behave naturally, and it is necessary to prove to be the competent employee and the quite good person. How to cope with a stress in a new workplace and to make a good impression on colleagues?
How to be prepared for acquaintance to colleagues?
So, we will present that you on the eve of the first working day. How to be prepared for it that acquaintance to new collective became fruitful and positive? Psychologists claim what for full adaptation in a new situation on average is required to the person from three weeks to three months. 21 days are the that term when any action can be brought to automatism and to make habitual. The same concerns also the human relations. Be ready that you will not be received with open arms. The new person in collective is a black sheep. A splinter which will be tried to be pulled out in every way. This period it is necessary to worry and come out from it the winner. And preparation in this case plays a considerable role. On the eve of the first working day try to specify some details:
- when the working day begins. (It is desirable to arrive to work in 15-20 minutes prior to its beginning);
- whether there is in the company a dress code and as it is worth putting on;
- what documents need to be taken for registration;
- by what route it is more convenient to reach the place of work. Consider existence of traffic jams and time in a way;
- in advance learn who has to meet and present you to collective.
Having specified all necessary details, prepare clothes in advance and set several alarm clocks for the morning not to oversleep.
How to adapt in new collective?
Having arrived to the new place of work, at once resolve an issue how to be presented to new collective. Find the one who has to acquaint you with colleagues. You keep naturally and friendly, but internally prepare for defense and for what you after all the stranger for them of people and you anyway will apprehend watchfully. To adapt quicker you will be helped several important advice:
- Find the time for directly working duties. Answer any questions frostily, but with a smile.
- Do not try to seem cleverest and be not an upstart. In the first working day it is better to look round and keep aloof a little. However absolutely you should not retire into oneself too. You keep near colleagues, but moderately. Specify how they have dinner where there is a teapot and kitchen. If an opportunity is presented, have dinner together with new collective.
- Observation – your best trump which will help to adapt with a new situation. Remember names of colleagues, their occupation, pay attention with whom you should be crossed most often. At good observation it is possible to notice what relations are established between employees and to adopt their unspoken rules.
- Will inevitably ask you various questions. Perhaps, there will be also those who will treat you kindly at once. Answer colleagues with the same positive relation. But do not tell about yourself too much. You should not trust new people.
Also it is worth remembering several mistakes which are made by the beginners who are not knowing how to join new collective. So, in the first working day you should not be late, forget a name of the head, to be rude, brag, make up, to compare the company to the previous place of work, to deny, or on the contrary categorically to assert the rights and freedoms (women, animal, etc.), to comment and criticize actions of colleagues, to flirt, at once to undertake all work, to give clever advice.
Following the similar simple rules, you adapt in new collective quicker and deserve trust and respect from colleagues. Present how you look from outside and what opinion on yourself you would like to hear from new and still people unfamiliar to you. Such tactics will help you to be the adaptation period at new work less painful. Have patience, believe in yourself and at you surely everything will turn out!