Joining A New Team

Take both physical and mental notes on what goes on around you. 

While you're immersing yourself in the culture of the company, also familiarize yourself with some of the other norms. How does your boss react to certain things? What are the problems you can provide solutions to? Take a "fly on the wall" mentality while you're settling in to see how the company functions.

• It usually develops after you and another person have spent some time interacting and assessing each other’s character.
• Three of the most readable indicators of trust: Competence, Benevolence and Integrity.
• If all goes well and that trust builds, you start to feel psychologically safe and can form a stable belief about one another.
• Remote work has made all of this even more difficult to do.

Many of us are interacting through our screens and working on hybrid teams with people located in various areas of the world who we’re not likely to meet face-to-face anytime soon. We lack the luxury of regularly observing our peers in-person, making it harder to gauge their intentions, values, and characters (and vice versa).

This is a problem. Without it, you may not feel comfortable bringing your full self to work.