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Welcoming a new colleague
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Global businesses draw on human resources from all continents nowadays. The search for specific skills in employees, especially in areas of new technology, can lead to recruitment from further afield. In addition, it is more likely that colleagues from foreign branches will spend time learning about the workings of the holding or parent company. All this means that welcoming a new colleague can involve a new cultural challenge. You might find yourself asked to show a new colleague the ropes who is not fluent or unable to speak your language - how are you going to welcome him?

Get the ball rolling

Getting started is sometimes the hardest part. As the person doing the welcoming, you will need to break the ice and put the new colleague at ease. All of us have been the new colleague at some point. We can probably remember how grateful we were to the people who came up to us and made an effort to talk to us in the first few days.

Later in a one-on-one situation, you are probably going to be less formal. You might like to remind your new staff member that he should be open with any questions that he might have.

Then you might need to introduce the newbie to any people who are essential in his workflow and so make everyone's job much easier.

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