How to you onboard you members in your team? Do you do anything to make them feel welcome or show them the ropes? Here is a cool tip that could help you.

1. Ashley-Christian Hardy
Team Onboarding Tip – Welcome
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3. New Team Members
This is something I have thought about a lot when new people join my team.
I think its important for new team members to get the best on-boarding experience as possible. They
should be made to feel as part of the team as quickly as possible and felt welcomed and needed.
After all, you hired them for a reason.
I have seen it so many times where new starters are forgot, they become an after thought and not
really given the attention they need or deserve.
There are many ways to combat these issues, and I will discuss some in my future blog posts, but for
this entry I would like to share a few small things that I think make a big difference.

4. The Welcome Desk
You should ensure that their PC and any admin accesses
are already set up… but rather than just presenting them
with an empty desk you should make it feel
more welcoming. An easy example is that if you have
branded office stationary etc., put some on their desk as a
welcome gift.
Even if you don’t have company branded, just standard
pens, notebook or any other things that you think will be
useful for the member.
Another good method I have seen is to add some sticky
notes to the members desk / monitor, containing some
advice from their team. You should try and make some of
them informative, but try to make them fun too.

5. The Survival Guide
Its also good to provide the member with a handbook
for the team. They will likely get one on a company
level, but I think its nice to create one on a more
personal level for members of your team. Your
team process, best practices, welcome advice… I know
we live in a digital age, but I think its nice to give out a
hard copy as a ‘welcome gift’.
I also saw this image floating around the internet, its
another good way of introducing a new team member,
its always good to impose your culture onto new team
members when they join. I think if you can relax your
new team members and make them comfortable, you
will get the best out of them quicker.
Let them know its “OK to……”

6. Summary
Its important to make any new team member as welcome as possible, and also
comfortable.
Its their first day, they are likely to be nervous… as a Manager, you should be doing
everything in your first week to make this new member feel welcome, and more
importantly – that they made the correct decision to join your team.

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