I will be onboarding a new teammate soon and need advice.

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August 22,2023 at 2:34PM UTC

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I will be onboarding a new teammate soon and need advice.

Hello out there. I work on a mostly remote team (we go into the office about 1x a month to connect and socialize). We went remote over the pandemic and have all worked together for 4+ years. We really work well in this WFH environment.

We will be hiring for an exisiting position, the opening was created when two of us moved up when our orginal leader left for another great role.

I am looking for advice and tips to make this the best experience it can be for our new teammate joining such an established team, especially if they dont live close enough to join us in person every once in awhile.

Thank you!

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AnonymousAugust 22,2023 at 3:37PM UTC
Lots and lots of virtual contact. Making sure this person's IT works perfectly, that they have ample training and lots of 1:1 checkins
AnonymousAugust 22,2023 at 5:08PM UTC
Ask them how often they'd like you to check in on them; assure them they can contact _____ with questions, et.c Otherwise if you continually check in to see how they're doing, it might be considered "big brother" and make them less productive and fearful, and feel like you don't trust them to get their work done OR that they're working.
AnonymousAugust 23,2023 at 4:58PM UTC
Make a grid in a spreadsheet, embed into it any links to resources that they can refer to over and over again. Even if some of it seems simplistic. Put their name on the top
Also add in there links to your slack, chat or other community or communal places where people connect.
Put linkedin profile links into it as well for the folks that they will interact with and add in there an org chart if you can.
Then day one go through this in a one hour session after they do all of their HR paperwork. Set up on their first weeks calendar 1-1's with those they will need to get to know and if you can on the friday at EOW do a group meet and greet in a 30 minute video call to have them see the whole team.
Then each week for the rest of the month check in for 30 on each Monday and see how its going.
AnonymousSeptember 1,2023 at 3:24PM UTC
Great info thank you