Ever been asked question after question by a new coworker? (work, people)
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1. Observing and Taking Notes
2. Being an active Listener and taking notes
3. Asking questions but to different people not the same coworker.
4.Reading my Traning Manual that is also available to the New lady.
People learn differently. Just because she, or anyone else, does not learn the same way you do does not make either one of you right or wrong.
Stop trying to get people to fit your mold of what they should be and maybe life will be easier for you instead of all the drama bombs you seem to have!!!
1. Observing and Taking Notes
2. Being an active Listener and taking notes
3. Asking questions but to different people not the same coworker.
4.Reading my Traning Manual that is also available to the New lady.
What book did you copy this from?
(And has anyone noticed it's only females that TVSG has problems with--and he wonders why he can't find a girlfriend that he doesn't ahve to pay by the hour.)
1. Observing and Taking Notes
2. Being an active Listener and taking notes
3. Asking questions but to different people not the same coworker.
4.Reading my Traning Manual that is also available to the New lady.
You're already on the way to addressing the issue!
See if you have any old note pads laying around that are no longer in use....
Put labels on them and give them to your new co-worker, instructing her to use them daily. At a pre-determined time each day, you two could get together to go over any questions that have come up.
The first note pad should be labeled- Questions.
I think she should put the answers on separate note pads, based upon the nature of the topic. Ie: Operations, HR, etc.
I ask tons of questions in a new job as well - That just means that I am motivated and want to know as much as possible to be sufficient and shorten the training process.If she keeps asking the same again then ask her if it would help her to write it down so she knows it for the next time the topic comes up. Some people don't change jobs often and don't know to write stuff down until they get reminded. If you tell her why things work the way they work it is easier to remember. Knowing background is always good.
My other approach is that I'm glad I tend to have to be told how to do something only once or can figure a lot of things out myself, so I'm the one people often will ask - and I prefer being on my end than on their end, so I try to be patient. In fact I tell others that if it takes 10 times of telling someone how to do something, then that's how many times you must tell them.
If you're the one that people tend to keep asking, then it shows you have some kind of leadership quality - so run with it.
I was in a similar situation and had the same frustration. I kept providing support anyways and realized for myself I was being provided with an opportunity to not only coach, but in the end had the recognition of management of helping others.
Think of it as a teaching experience and a niche that you have and as long as your doing your job and helping others it's a great leverage during review time.
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