The Onboarding Best Practice Roadmap

"Creating a wonderful employee onboarding experience is a priority for talent magnetic businesses because it affects the happiness of every single new hire, the productivity of the team and sets the tone for the way work gets done."

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Creating a wonderful employee onboarding experience is a priority for talent magnetic businesses because it affects the happiness of every single new hire, the productivity of the team and sets the tone for the way work gets done. Here's our up-to-the-minute best ways to ensure that each new person is set up for success from day one.

The Onboarding Best Practice Roadmap from Help Scout has it all:

• 4 Point Work Flow
• Logistics List
• Onboarding Checklist
• Email Template
• Day One Scenario and Map
• Work Buddy Things To Do
• Plus: Advice for onboarding remote teams

Want more?...How about some creative juice for your onboarding smoothie? Intrigue, laughter and pleasant surprises help new folks find the bathroom, know what's where, who's who and how to tell an inside joke.

6 Unique Onboarding ideas:

• Unique welcome kits
• The company storybook
• Values cards
• A "What's Where" map
• A hallway photo board
• Insider jokes and stories cards

Watch

Of all the powerful young people who took the mike yesterday, there was one little one who stood out.

9 Year Old Yolanda Renee King Channelled Her Grandfather at The March for Our Lives

Ponder

"This is not a performance evaluation, it's a performing evaluation. It's not about how I can get more work out of you. It's about how I can get you more into your work." ~ Cynthia Maxwell, Director of Engineering at Slack

Clear instructions to help your employees love their work. NOT just for engineers!

Try this: Ask your staff to plot their "flow" location on these Flow Graphics

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