Welcome to Manager Tools.

This week, first meeting, new direct series, Family First, part one.

The questions this CASA answers are, how can I speed up my new directs on-boarding?

What should I tell my directs when they start?

What are the most important messages to share with a new direct?

Hi folks, it's Mark. Welcome back. It's a new year 2022. We get further and further away from

the year that shall not be named with a number.

And we're not going to have any ads this cast. We're just going to say happy new year.

We hope you had lovely holidays. However you chose to spend them, hopefully with family and friends.

And we look forward to another year of serving you and we hope your year is prosperous, ethical, and successful.

Happy new year.

Welcome, everyone. Our discussion today is about another one of our first meetings with our new directs.

When we have a new direct, we're bringing them in, we're onboarding them, but we have a series of meetings.

And one of them is this one, which is Family First. And that's going to be our topic today.

And there's a special guest on the show.

This is a special guest on the show.

I think this is the second time I've been back on Manager Tools since you and Sarah took it over.

And I had a hoot when you guys emailed me or slacked me and said, would you be willing to fill in

for one of us? Because one of you was traveling. And I said, yeah, Sarah or you said,

it'll be nice to have a guest on our cast.

Well, you know, is your very special guest?

Yeah, just, you know, not a normal guest. We don't actually allow normal guests. We only have

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