How to get to know team members?
Last week I started at a dream company of mine, had a week of company onboarding and first team meeting today. I was late as my new boss had forgotten to put me on the invite. When I joined my team of 6 were talking but no one even interrupted what they were doing to say hi to me. Anyway, I want to get off to a good start but how do you build relationships with your team when you only meet a couple of days a week on Zoom? I find it hard to be pro-active when the only way to do so is to annoy busy people over Slack. TC 170k +stock I have no idea yet how much it’s worth
Join the calls on zoom early, and make small talk with whoever joins next, it will snowball from there
Yep coming to the meeting late was awkward
Schedule 1 on 1s and ask them, "when does the narwhal bacon?" I promise, this will make you very popular and cool.
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Set up 1-1 with your team mates. You can tell that you want to get to know them and also learn about what they are working on. Ask your manager if you can set up a Happy hour to get to know the team. Ask about them and their hobbies.
I will do that but everyone is so busy I hate to ask them to join another Zoom
Don’t think of it that way. It’s their responsibility too to get to know you. It’s a team and it’s important for everyone to have a good working relationship so that you all can work well together.