Adjusting To New Team

Dinesh, after 4 years of his first job moved out for a better role and opportunity to a different company. He had been feeling restless and incompetent in his new role. He thought of contacting his previous manager to go back again.

Observations through probing & active listening

• Exploring his feelings about his current job, and nostalgia for previous- he missed his old friends from previous company
• What made it easier in his previous company? Most of the team comprised of male colleagues. His present company had majorly female colleagues
• He missed the comfort, leave alone performing he couldn’t even interact with them

How Dinesh felt better

• Through the technique of graded exposure - starting from minimal contact- his confidence and comfort was established
• Normalizing the experience of anxiety and managing it through various coping techniques