Overwhelming Your New Employees Will Kill Productivity

Featured on US News and World ReportNewly Corporate is a member of the US News and World Report Career Blog Network “Outside Voices“. Each of the authors here at Newly Corporate post on the blog in a rotating schedule, one post total each week. Here is this week’s post by Brandon Alsup:

Last week was the beginning of a new project at work. I am practicing a new role and the employee below me is only three weeks into his first career. Needless to say, we are both expanding our skills.

We began our project, like most, with a pre-engagement meeting to help familiarize everyone with the data and the client. The concepts we were covering were fairly foreign to our new employee and rarely covered in the college classroom.

As the director and I began explaining the engagement to the new associate, it became obvious we were overwhelming him. Overwhelming an employee is not good—it can discourage growth, cause unnecessary stress, and brew resentment…

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