Onboarding New Hires

Scope

Covers

• Designing onboarding for a new hire’s first day / week / 30–60–90 days
• Creating a context pack (team operating manual, mental models, decision history) to reduce “hidden curriculum”
• Ensuring belonging + social integration (buddy + “first pair”, introductions, routines)
• Running a structured listening tour and synthesizing what’s learned into a crisp summary
• Aligning on a working agreement (relationship design: expectations, communication, escalation)
• Producing a concrete 30/60/90 plan plus 1-year / 2-year trajectory expectations

When to use

• “Create an onboarding plan for a new PM/engineer/leader joining my team.”
• “Build a 30/60/90 plan and first-week schedule for this hire.”
• “Design a listening tour + stakeholder map + synthesis template for a new leader.”
• “Create a buddy/first-pair plan so they don’t feel alone on day one.”
• “Write a working agreement / relationship design conversation guide for me and my new report.”