“16 Things Nobody Really Tells You About Starting Work” is heading to your inbox now. It’s usually there within a couple of minutes, if you don’t see it, check junk or promotions, since first emails from new senders sometimes land there.
Page six is about the moment someone turns to you and says “want to introduce yourself?” and your mind goes completely blank.
"Ten minutes into my first meeting, someone turned to me and said: Laura, do you want to introduce yourself properly to the group? And my mind went completely blank. I said something like, hi, I'm Laura, I'm new, I'm just here to learn really. And then I looked down at my notepad."
Write three lines before you need them: who you are, what you’re working on, why you’re in the room. You’re not being marked on polish, you’re giving people something to start a conversation with.
We turn the same 16 themes in this guide into the Workplace Ready Hub – our digital preboarding platform. Your new starters work through them on their phone as short, TikTok-style modules, in your own people’s voices, so they actually get done. It’s built for before day one, but works just as well for anyone who’s started recently.
