Forums

New Addition to Team
Life in Workforce Management
New Addition to Team
Share your stories of workforce-management success in contributing to your business' bottom line, as well as your tales of business bloopers and blunders.
Hello all! We have a new employee joining our Benefits and Compensation Team on Monday. It has been a few years since I have been new to a department and was wondering if anyone had ideas on "introduc
0
Cat:Topic ForumsForum:ForumId55
Cat:Topic ForumsForum:ForumId55Discussion:DiscussionId21420

Forums » Topic Forums » Life in Workforce Management » New Addition to Team

You must be logged in to contribute. Log in | Register
 
Forums  »  Topic Forums  »  Life in Workforce Management  »  New Addition to Team

New Addition to Team

posted at 3/26/2002 6:29 AM EDT
Posts: 9
First: 3/26/2002
Last: 4/8/2004
Hello all! We have a new employee joining our Benefits and Compensation Team on Monday. It has been a few years since I have been new to a department and was wondering if anyone had ideas on "introducing" the new hire to our area and jobs. We already have lunchs and "shadowing time" set up, but I was hoping to do something a little different. Any suggestions?
New post Reply to this post

New Addition to Team

posted at 3/26/2002 8:25 AM EDT
Posts: 37
First: 11/2/2001
Last: 4/16/2002
A really fun game in general, and that would help this new person... here's what you do:

Everyone is sitting around a big conference table. You then tell them they have 5 minutes to learn as much as possible about the person to their left (they pair up). What they need to find is information that nobody else at the table would know about them.

So 5 minutes(or X time) is up, they've done a quick back and forth on each other. THEN, (this is the fun part), you go around the circle one by one, and the spotlighted person's partner says something about the person that they just learned. If *ANYONE* at the table knows that piece of information, they say BEEP (or whatever action you want). This means they have to keep telling the group something else they learned until they come up with something nobody else in the group knows.

It's loads of fun, because you hear the funniest wildest personal stories, or weird oddities about someone. And if you have people who know each other really well, it makes them learn something new, or at the least you're learning new things because someone in the table keeps BEEPING.
New post Reply to this post

Forums » Topic Forums » Life in Workforce Management » New Addition to Team

Daily Q&A

How Do We Keep Our Best During Upheaval?

Things are getting scary for us. We recently had to downsize, and since then have lost some of our best people to other jobs. Aside from boosting their pay (which isn't feasible now), what practical steps can we take to keep them from quitting on us?

——Clinging to Hope, talent coordinator, hospitality, Guatemala

Read Answer

Stay Connected

Join our community for unlimited access to the latest tips, news and information in the HR world.

  • Workforce Technology (Bi-weekly)

    Covering the latest technology trends, tools and applications that are shaping the workforce in the 21st century. Delivered the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month.

  • Dear Workforce (Bi-weekly)

    See what HR professionals are asking, and what Workforce Management experts are saying. Delivered the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month.

  • Workforce Benefits (Weekly)

    Stay current on all aspects of employee benefits, from health care to retirement issues. Delivered on Wednesdays.

  • Workforce Week (Weekly)

    Free weekly update on the trends in HR and new tools added to Workforce.com. Delivered each Tuesday.

  • Workforce Talent (Monthly)

    See the recruiting, talent development and retention strategies of top companies and get the resources for effective talent management. Delivered the 2nd Monday of each month.

  • Workforce Training (Monthly)

    Stay current on the latest strategies and resources for training and developing your workforce talent. Delivered the 3rd Monday of each month.

HR Jobs

View All Job Listings

Search