Twenty Nickels
If you save twenty nickels, you’ve made a dollar
by
Raymond Matkowsky
www.datastats.com
email: rdm@datastats.com
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Issue 6-13 June 2013
"Hit The Ground Running"?
by
Raymond Matkowsky
The term "Hit the ground running" is nothing more than corporate speak that hides a potential hornets' nest. The expectation is that the new hire or newly promoted person brings a knowledge with them so they don't need time to learn the ins and outs of their new position. This is patently false and may lead to more problems than imagined.
Running To Where?
The main problem with hitting the ground running is that you are blind to where you are going. It pays dividends to take the time to do the ground work. It may take more time up front, but in the long run less time will be spent.
It is not uncommon for the newly hired/promoted to spend the first several months meeting with employees, vendors, and customers. If it is a new hire, he or she has never had the opportunity to do so as a representative of your company. If he or she was a subordinate in the past, he or she may not of been given the opportunity to do so. Either way, they are at a disadvantage.
Plus, most likely, it will take a full year to experience every potential problem that is likely to occur.
Culture
Don't downgrade the effect of culture. All organizations, yours, your vendors, your customers, have their own unique way of doing things. Not to take cultural differences into account invites trouble not only for the new hire but for the company also.
For example, I worked for an organization that hired a new production manager for the middle of three shifts. This manager deemed it necessary to implement many changes as to how his shift conducted their jobs. These changes angered the employees. They got back at the manager by taking a portion of the seconds and scraps from the other two shifts and including them in their totals. At the time, all the manager's bosses knew was that second and scraps production was going down on two shifts and increasing on his. The new production manager was fired because it seemed that his changes were detrimental to the company.
Imagine this scenario being repeated with your suppliers or customers. Anger your customers and they will go to your competitors.
People see a situation from their own vantage point. A new hire must learn what their viewpoint is and he or she must not become a causalty of that viewpoint.
You Do Not "Hit The Ground Running"
No matter how well suited a person is, it takes time to adjust to a new job.
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