You're choosing what a new hire does first, and the first month sets the tone for the year
This is for you if a new hire starts soon and you're picking their first work. The first month sets how they see themselves, and how the team sees them, and the first task you hand them is where that starts.
The reflex is to hand a new hire whatever's most urgent, or the standard starter task. It's a fair instinct, and it can quietly cost them a good start.
The first work a new hire does is how the team reads them, and how they read themselves. A strong first month in work they're built for builds reputation and confidence. A rough one, against their grain, sets the opposite, and it's hard to walk back.
Their results tell you which work is theirs. Before day one, open two sections of their Career Discovery report. The Five Types of Work names their primary type and complement. Aligned Work Areas names the nine job areas built for how they work.
Now line those two reads against the work you have.
- From The Five Types of Work, note their primary type and complement.
- List the real projects waiting, obvious and leftover both.
- Mark the ones inside their primary or complement type that also match an Aligned Work Area.
- Pick their first project from that overlap, and let anything urgent outside it wait or be paired.
You finish with one named first project, and a short bench of good next ones.
