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    Chapter Meeting - Building Connections from Day One: Activities for Integrating New Hires

    Date: September 3, 2024, 1:00pm
    Organizer:
    Southwest Virginia SHRM
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    https://vccs.zoom.us/j/87886263259?pwd=RlNaNk96aW44Sk9GdVBab3Avd2dFdz09

    Meeting ID: 878 8626 3259
    Passcode: 360751
    Price:
    Free to Chapter Members
    Event Type:
    Meeting: All Chapter Members - Guests and others are welcome
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    Integrating new hires into a team is tricky.

    Employee onboarding usually focuses heavily on company policies and processes and on getting the new hire up to speed on their role and responsibilities, which are certainly critical. Too often, though, it’s left up to chance whether and when new employees start forming connections with their colleagues.

    In this highly interactive session, you’ll learn a few simple, free activities that you can lead that help teams - both in-person and distributed - get to know each other better. By helping new employees form these connections early, you’ll be setting them up for higher levels of engagement, improved performance, and longer retention from day one.

    Alexandra (Alex) Suchman is CEO and co-founder of Barometer XP, a company that uses games and play to build stronger workplace cultures. She’s a woman on a mission to make work a place you actually want to be, and by facilitating game sessions for Barometer’s clients, she helps individuals and teams build a sense of trust and community that leads to meaningful, sustainable culture change.

    Before co-founding Barometer XP, Alex founded the consulting firm AIS Collaborations as well as working for over a decade in policy, public health, and operations management. She has an MPP from The George Washington University, a BA in psychology from Colby College, and is certified as both a Project Management Professional (PMP) and DISC coach.

    Alex currently lives in Washington, DC with her partner and their dog, who thinks that any “play” she’s involved in should definitely include her.