Practice Hands-On Management
As important as overloading them with work, you must give new employees hands-on training and support from the first day. New employees have what is called “low task-relevant maturity.” This means that no matter how much work experience the employee had in the past, the meter is set back to zero at the new job: The new employee simply has no exact idea of what to do or how to do it.
For this reason, you should take new employees under your wing and give them careful step-by-step direction and guidance in doing all parts of the new job. The idea of “sink or swim” has been relegated to the history books of business. It is not a valid or intelligent way of starting a new person, if it ever was.
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