Typical onboarding consists of a morning filling out the benefits paperwork and then a lunch with your new manager or perhaps your team.
If you are lucky, your company has some sort of onboarding process and perhaps your boss has created a short plan of who you should meet and key meetings to attend.
Typical onboarding consists of a morning filling out the benefits paperwork and then a lunch with your new manager or perhaps your team.
If you are lucky, your company has some sort of onboarding process and perhaps your boss has created a short plan of who you should meet and key meetings to attend.
By contrast, every time a US Army officer changes jobs they get 4 to 6 weeks of dedicated education which covers:
(A) Current top challenges the Army faces overall (context for the new job).
(B) Technology changes (new weapons, new enemies, cyberwarfare, etc.).
(C) And everything the officer needs to take on the job successfully.
4 things you can take from this:
(1) Read The First 90 Days if you are changing roles.
(2) Ask your new boss about the onboarding plan and prompt them for help.
(3) As the new hire onboarding, proactively provide your manager a 90-day plan to kickstart ideas, feedback, and the process. Saying "Doing XYZ will help me get up to speed faster" helps the manager move faster and unlock blockers (e.g. you need to meet with ABC, I'll intro you now).
(4) If you are hiring, consider what more you can do to onboard your hires. Tacos alone are not enough!
Typical onboarding consists of a morning filling out the benefits paperwork and then a lunch with your new manager or perhaps your team.
If you are lucky, your company has some sort of onboarding process and perhaps your boss has created a short plan of who you should meet and key meetings to attend.
By contrast, every time a US Army officer changes jobs they get 4 to 6 weeks of dedicated education which covers:
(A) Current top challenges the Army faces overall (context for the new job).
(B) Technology changes (new weapons, new enemies, cyberwarfare, etc.).
(C) And everything the officer needs to take on the job successfully.
4 things you can take from this:
(1) Read The First 90 Days if you are changing roles.
(2) Ask your new boss about the onboarding plan and prompt them for help.
(3) As the new hire onboarding, proactively provide your manager a 90-day plan to kickstart ideas, feedback, and the process. Saying "Doing XYZ will help me get up to speed faster" helps the manager move faster and unlock blockers (e.g. you need to meet with ABC, I'll intro you now).
(4) If you are hiring, consider what more you can do to onboard your hires. Tacos alone are not enough!
Great additions, thanks for sharing Jason