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You just showed up. You're on a new team. You're trying to figure out how the hell am I going to fit in with my new teammates? How am I going to be accepted? How am I going to successfully integrate with this with the new team? Maybe maybe you're a professional athlete. You got traded. Maybe you're a police officer and you're
It's your first day on the SWAT team. Maybe you're in school, your parents moved, 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 in a specialized team.
That can be extremely intimidating. And, you know, especially if it's a team that's been together for several years and is working really well together and is a really tight team, they're always they're always they're never going to be accepting right off the bat. So, you know, what are some steps you can do to kind of 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 your jokes. What's the team's work ethic? Are they a workhorse? You know, I'm not going to 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 don't go in there being an overachiever as much as I kind of hate saying that. If you don't want to 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, kind of see how everything's working 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, everybody's hesitant to change.
So I think one of the most detrimental things you could do joining a new team is come in and try to change everything. You're not 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 failure.
failure as a team, just go in there and assess the climate of the team and try to blend with that. Listen to what they have to say, you know, figure out what are their SOPs. SOP is the standard operating procedure. That's a military term. I don't know if that carries over to civilian life or not, but basically what it is is, you know, what are their operating procedures? How do they conduct business?
How do they accomplish or complete certain tasks? So if they have written rules or written guidelines 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 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 it actually works, you know, so being a new teammate
You have to kind of open yourself up 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 a minute, and just observe everything 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, 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 you'll know when the team starts, you know, accepting you 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 a slow process if you want to do it right. 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 introduce a change. And if you can do that by being patient and
nine times out of ten you're gonna 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 if it's a lazy team my su 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 trying to become the golden boy, or maybe you're not even trying to become the golden boy. You just have a work ethic that's through the roof.
You know, the leaders might love you, but the team might fucking hate you, which is going to be a you know, it's going to 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 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 whatever's going on, the inner team drama, once you get introduced to the inner team drama, that's like stage one of, hey, you're one of us. So that's a telltale sign. If they're going to 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 so in a nutshell, be observant. Don't go in being an overachiever. Learn how to adapt and make damn be patient. And before you start making 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. Then you can start to implement 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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