Often times, adding a new employee to mix can be difficult. Even when hiring a person who is fully qualified to perform in fashion you need, there will be an adjustment period.

Getting used to how things are done at your company - and getting used to communicating well with new people - takes time. Learning what to expect from a new environment can be stressful for a new hire. As a leader, there are specific actions you can take to ensure transition is successful and a positive experience for everyone involved.

Be A Good Role Model

This sounds cliché, but in reality, it is vitally important. The new hire will be looking for an example to follow. That example should come from you. Since showing makes a greater impression that telling, make a point to display qualities of: responsibility, cooperation, and team unity. This will demonstrate excellence, and provide a baseline of expected behavior for your new team member.

Communicate Effectively

Especially in first month of employment, ensure that tasks are completely understood, are supervised (either directly or indirectly), and are accomplished with expected results. To do this, you will need several tools in your arsenal.

It is essential to clearly define job responsibilities with a written job description. This should include expectations of job.

S stands for Save

Saving incoming and outgoing email documents might be important to you because:

·You have verification that it was received or sent ·You need to keep track of correspondence ·The information pertains to your projects/work ·Company policy ·Reference material

However, this information SHOULD NOT be kept in your IN (NEW) or OUT (SENT) folders.

First of all it can become very cumbersome to locate something when you need it. Secondly, your company, web host, or Internet provider might have a limit to how much * stuff * you can store in above areas. Periodically they might automatically * empty * folders for you! Then where would you be when you need to refer to an email that you HAD NOT saved?

For safety, convenience, and efficiency, best solution is to save emails onto your own hard drive or disk, into your own folders.

The following steps and tips are for saving emails using Microsoft Explorer’s browser along with mail program Outlook Express. If you are using Netscape or a different browser, and a different email program, chances are steps are similar but wording might be a little different. The best advice I can give you for other browsers and mail programs is to look in your Help section for guidance.

Steps for saving New Email:

Okay, you’ve just gotten an important email from your boss that promises you that you can have month off to go on vacation! You want to save this in case a question arises later when you try to take off.

~~ Move Pointer to File at top of toolbar (usually on top left corner) and Click ~~ Scroll down to Save as and Click

A Save Message As box will appear.

The Save in: section should have last folder name that you saved a document to. In this case you want to save your document in your * BOSSES * folder, which is located in MY DOCUMENTS folder. (Remember, you will NOT have a BOSSES folder unless you have made one..this is just an example).

~~ CLICK small black down arrow next to folder name in Save in: ~~ CLICK on MY DOCUMENTS ~~ Locate BOSSES Folder in box and DOUBLE CLICK on it ~~ The BOSSES folder should now be in Save in: section

Giving document a name:

~~ PRESS Your TAB Key to move to File name: or move POINTER to File name: and CLICK.

~~ The document will already be named for you from whatever your boss put in subject line of email message BUT you can change name to something you will remember and can easily locate when needed.

TIP: You can keep same document name or change it.

~~ Type in new name you want to give your document or leave same BEFORE PRESSING RETURN OR CLICKING ON SAVE NOTICE THE FILE FORMAT YOU ARE SAVING IN!