805: Building Connections from Day One: Activities for Integrating New Hires
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The need for activities that encourage connection is especially critical for remote and hybrid teams. This session will focus on simple activities teams can do to help foster individual connections and a sense of belonging between new and existing team members. During the session, you'll try out different activities that encourage storytelling to learn more about each other's backgrounds, help uncover shared interests, and inspire fun shared memories for the new team.Learning Objectives:Explore barriers to forming new relationships faced by new hires.Design effective team bonding sessions for integrating new hires into in-person and distributed teams.Lead engaging activities to catalyze connections between new and existing employees.
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Alexandra Suchman
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.