Semi-inducted (or is it induced?)

I had the first day of my staff induction today. Today we heard from the CEO about the company in general, the General Manager - Sales, Technical Development Manager, GM - HR, GM - Manufacturing and Stores, about the superannuation fund and then went on a tour of the Hornby factory. It was pretty full on but good to hear from a few more departments about what goes on in the rest of the company. And touring the factory was interesting. It wasn't quite as clean as the cocoa processing factories I looked around in Malaysia in March though.

This evening all of us who were being inducted/induced went out to dinner with a couple of people from HR and a couple of other HR staff. It was quite a pleasant evening really. All the other 'new' people were very friendly and it was good to be able to put faces to names for all the new field staff I report on week in week out.

Tomorrow we have the second day where the GM - Marketing (my boss), GM - IT, GM - Supply, Manager of the Customer Services Centre and CFO will all speak to us. It really is a good programme they run. It's a great idea to give new employees this background info. Definitely a good way for them to feel involved in the company right from the start.