5 essential tips for successfully integrating into a new work team

What are the 5 main tips for successfully integrating into a new work team? 

• The first and most essential piece of advice to follow when taking on a new role in a new environment is very simple: I suggest adopting a realistic attitude based on pure common sense, unfortunately often considered obsolete or ineffective: it is to be humble. This humility of the beginner, whatever his responsibilities, guarantees the success of his integration. Indeed, nothing is more irritating and disposes more against a newcomer than to hear him say and repeat: "I will explain to you" or "at so and so - the previous company he left - we did that..."
• The second advice is the corollary of the first: rather than wanting to "prove yourself" quickly, you should devote a lot of time to listening.

• To really listen, and not pretend to, when inside we let ourselves be invaded by a thousand impatience and ideas, necessarily brilliant. This time listening to others is not wasted time, quite the contrary. Should this period last for months, it is in the crucible of these interpersonal exchanges, in the reciprocal emotional taming, that each of the "alliances" are based, which are then essential to any action, any project, any achievement.
• The third ? Respect each person, their role in the organization or in the team and their seniority! The "young wolves" who fail to do so, sure of being right, quickly unite against them those whom they could have made allies and partners. No one ever succeeds alone, or even more so, against everyone. It is in the harmonious functioning of a real team that will be born the maximum of real added value, which can then be shared.
• Fourth, it is very beneficial to learn to identify the true values ​​shared by the team one joins. It is not necessarily about displayed or verbalized values, but rather about the real meaning of the common commitment. Is it about creating beauty, excellence, having fun, making a socially useful contribution, loyalty, creativity...? If at least one of these values ​​(very real, well shared and well anchored, even if very often informal) resonates with yours, then you will soon "be part of the gang" and your integration will be solid, lasting and deep.
• Fifth and last advice: if after a few weeks, you have some small interpersonal conflicts or you have some micro-anxieties when you arrive at work, then leave, leave it, run away from them! You have deceived yourself or they have deceived you. In each of these hypotheses, staying will not fail to destroy little by little all your psychic energy before perhaps even starting your personality and risking destroying you! "If you love what you do or if you do what you love, not a single day in your life will you work" repeated Lao Tzu. That this becomes your motto, it is my most ardent wish!

source: Atlantico.fr