Category: Onboarding

After onboarding new employees across companies and disciplines, having been onboarded, and working to improve onboarding practices at nearly every company I’ve worked at, I’ve stumbled to the belief that there is a nearly-algorithmic process can lead to an ideal—or at least much more acceptable—onboarding experience.  Following this algorithm will take work, but it leads…

I wrote before about two of my onboarding experiences and how they shaped my view of the company I was starting at. Those were remote, senior-level software development roles. In this post, I’m going to write about improving onboarding for roles that were not remote, senior, or for software development. Once upon a time, I…

Beginnings, like this one, are important. A good beginning draws you in, puts you in the right frame of mind to engage with upcoming ideas or events, and makes you want more. A good beginning might be funny, action-packed1, raise burning questions, make you feel a need, or enrage you. A bad beginning doesn’t do…