Les Cowie – Author, Consultant & Coach

Do you fear being dumped in your new job, left to learn the job through trial-and-error?  This happens to the majority of job entrants, even after a well run corporate sign-on and onboarding process.  If new job entrants are equipped with 7 X-Ray videos of a job and are then given the minimum ‘Things-to-Do’ and …

Now that you understand the 7 Steps, how should you use them to be seen mastering your new job and how do you set your eyes on the next job up the ladder?

Step 7:  Develop a Patrol Pattern and Inspection Sequence.  Success depends on correct performance in many locations in the new job and at many process points. Once you know the 20% of tasks that must be performed 80% of the time and also know the 20% of the faults that occur 80% of the time, you …

Step 6:  Compile a list of the faults that may occur in the job.  In every job, things go wrong.  Some things go wrong more often than others. The Pareto 20/80 principle is true in the study of faults on the job.  It’s important to be proactive and ask people who know the job about …

Step 5:  Compile checklists for critical processes.

In this short podcast, Les Cowie introduces new job entrants to the concept of “Flow” in the job and the importance of charting the typical and non typical process flows.  This is Step 2 of the 7 Steps outlined in the book:  “New Job? Fast Start! 7 Steps to be seen mastering your new job …

This podcast introduces Job Entrants to Pareto’s 20/80 principle that applies to all frequencies of tasks in a job.

Step 1:  Define the job’s environments.  Every job operates within definable environments.  You can describe these as internal and external environments. Internal Environment The Internal Environment is the space where the job happens.  We define the internal environment by all the ‘things’ that are within that ‘unique’ space.  These things can include: equipment, furniture, utilities, appliances, …

The book, “New Job? Fast Start! 7 Steps” offers seven simple tools to accelerate the time between starting the job and being in command of the position.  We encourage you to reach out and not wait for someone to take you by the hand.  Instead, actively seek answers for the things you need to know.  …

Awesome!   You have landed a new job.  Now what?  Are you like most new job entrants who want to get off to a good start? Do you want to make favorable impressions quickly?  Do you have an action plan for how to understand what will make you successful early in the new job?  Most job entrants approach …