Episode 58 | Why Training a New Guy Makes You the Peter Jackson of Corporate America

Question

Hey Work Wives! It's Amelia from Salt Lake City. I need some advice. So, a new guy started in my office as a temp yesterday. It's just going to be me and him tomorrow working, so my manager basically told me that he can sit with me while I work and I can teach him a few tasks. I've never trained anyone before, so I'm a little bit nervous. I'm not great at explaining things, but I'm going to try to do my best. I've already cleaned up my notes that I've been taking since I started the job to give to him. There's so much information to learn, and I know when I was first training, it was kind of overwhelming. I've been working here for 10 months, and we don't have a manual, so I guess the best thing is for him to just learn while I talk to him? But I don't know what to do necessarily. Do you guys have some tips that would be helpful when it comes to training someone?

Summary

Hear us out: training a new guy in Corporate America is like film director Peter Jackson condensing the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy into digestible movies the world will sit down and watch. 

The lesson for you: teach only what’s crucial and cut the rest, because when it comes to training, if you wander, they get lost.

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