Hard Truth - How to Integrate In a New Team

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• 1:30Shawn Ryan?

  You just showed up, you're on a new team. You're trying to figure out, how the hell am I gonna fit in with my new teammates? How am I gonna be accepted? How am I going to successfully integrate

• 1:44Shawn Ryan?

  with this, with the new team? Maybe, maybe you're a professional athlete and you got traded. Maybe you're a police officer and you, it's your first day on the SWAT team. Maybe, maybe you're in school, your parents moved, you're in a, you're in a new school and you're on a new debate team or a new wrestling team or whatever. Doesn't matter. You change jobs. You're in a new work environment and a specialized team. That can be extremely intimidating. And, um, you know, especially if it's a team that's been together for, you know, several years and is working really well together and, and is a really tight team. They're always...

• 2:27Shawn Ryan?

  They're always, they're never gonna be accepting right off the bat. So, um, you know, what are some steps you can do to kinda get through that? When you show up, just be an observer, you know, be an observer. You need to, you know, figure out the climate of that team. What's the team's sense of humor like? Don't go, you know, you need to figure that out before you come in there busting jokes out. They might not appreciate, they might not appreciate your jokes. What's the team's work ethic? Are they a workhorse? You know, I'm not gonna tell you don't work if they're a bunch of lazy turds, but you know, you are part of that team and you do need to integrate. So, you don't go in

• 3:10Shawn Ryan?

  there being an overachiever, as much as I kinda hate saying that. If you don't wanna piss your team off, don't go in there and do everybody's job and fix every little thing that's messed up. Just chill out for a minute, look around, get the climate, kinda see how, how everything's working, and, and adapt to their ways. Okay, so, everybody's always hesitant to change. You know, nobody, and this goes whether you're a leader, or whether you're just part of the team, no, everybody's hesitant to change. So, I think one of the most detrimental things you could do, uh, joining a new team is come in and try to change everything. You're, you're not

• 3:51Shawn Ryan?

  going to be accepted unless you're in an environment where, you know, lives are on the line, or it's just, it's a complete, uh, failure as a team. Just go in there and, and, and assess the climate of the team, and try to blend with that. Um, listen to what they have to say, you know, figure out what are their SOPs. SOP is a standard operating procedure, uh, that's a military term. I don't know if that carries over to civilian life or not, but, uh, basically what it is, is, you know, what, what is their, um, what are their operating procedures? How do they conduct

• 4:28Shawn Ryan?

  business? How, how do they, um, accomplish or, uh, complete certain tasks? So, if they have written rules or written guidelines, uh, that they've been following for years, just learn the guidelines. Maybe you do know a more efficient way that is better. Being new to a team, that's not the time to bring that up. You need to gain the confidence, you know, of your teammates and in your new leaders before you start trying to to change things. All right. And and you shouldn't try to change anything right off the bat anyways. You don't know how it functions. You know, it might sound like a shit sandwich, but maybe

• 5:11Shawn Ryan?

  it actually works, you know. So being a new teammate, you have to kind of open yourself up and and be willing to adapt to them. You know, you're outnumbered. You're the new guy. You're the one who needs the team to gain confidence in you. They don't need you to gain confidence in them. You're replaceable as a new guy. You are always replaceable as a new guy. And you need to understand that. So in short, when you show up to a new team, just be an observer. Sit down, take, take a minute and just observe everything

• 5:54Shawn Ryan?

  that's going on. Once the team starts accepting you into their team, that's the time where maybe you can make a suggestion. Don't come in saying, you know, well, this is how I did it in my last team, or hey, I know a better way to do this. I mean, you're dealing with, you know, unfort- you're just you're dealing with egos and you need to get over your own ego as well. So like I was saying, in short, when you show up to a new team, be observant, learn how to adapt, hold the suggestion box and the good ideas for just a minute. And then and and you'll know when the team starts, you know, accepting you

• 6:36Shawn Ryan?

  and and they have confidence in you. You don't you need to prove yourself, but you don't need to prove yourself on day one. You need to it's it's a slow process if you want to do it right. And and so show up, be observant, be able to adapt, know the right time and place to make a suggestion. Or what I mean by make a suggestion is

• 7:02Shawn Ryan?

  Introduce a change and and if you can do that by being patient nine times out of 10, you're going to blend in just fine. Do your job, do it the best of your abilities. Don't, uh, don't go in trying to do everybody's job and, and, uh, you know, um, if it's a lazy team, my, if you want to be accepted by the team, as much as I hate to say it, do not be the overachiever. If you are doing everybody else's job, everybody has a job to do on a team, correct? So if you go in there and you're trying to do everybody else's job and, and, and,

• 7:44Shawn Ryan?

  and trying to become the golden boy, or maybe, maybe you're not even trying to become the golden boy. You just have a worth ethic or work ethic that's through the roof. You know, yeah, the leaders might love you, but the team might fucking hate you, which is gonna be a, you know, it's gonna be miserable to go to work if they can't stand you. So do your, start off just doing your job, do it extremely well. Let everybody else do their thing and, um, and then, you know, you'll start getting accepted. You'll know when you start getting accepted because they'll start bitching about things to you. When the team starts bitching about things to you and complaining about, you

• 8:28Shawn Ryan?

  know, whatever's going on, the inter-team drama, once you get introduced to the inter-team drama, that's like stage one of, hey, you're one of us. So that's a telltale sign, you know, if they're gonna start airing dirty laundry to you, you can bet your ass you're starting to be accepted. So you're on the right track. But, um, so in a nutshell, be observant, don't go in being an overachiever, learn how to adapt and make damp, be patient and before you start making it suggestions or giving advice or talking about what you did on the old team, you know, Look for those signs. Look for, you know, the feeling of acceptance.

• 9:12Shawn Ryan?

  Then you can start to implement and new things and introduce new ideas and try to help the team become more efficient. Don't make it about you. It's not about you. It's about bettering the team. That's how I blend in and successfully integrate into new teams.

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