Onboarding Greater :: People 4 People 2020

1. Onboardinggreater
December2020

2. Hello!
I am Pedro Torres
Director of Software Engineering @ Salsify
12+ years experience running engineering teams (100+ engineers)
I love to build engineering teams in Startups, Scaleups, and Enterprise
companies
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3. 1.
Onboarding
The beginning of a (so we hope)
beautiful journey

4. Onboarding
✘ It starts on the hiring process
✘ Aim for a nice blend of push and pull content
✘ Have a mentor/buddy assigned since day 1
✘ Discuss everything upfront (e.g., code of conduct)
✘ Establish the goals for the first 30/60/90 days
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5. Personalization
iskeyandadistinctivefactor
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6. 2.
RemoteOnboarding
How different it is from the
in-person one?

7. RemoteOnboarding
✘ Rigour, Explicit, Thoughtful, and Considerate
✘ (If you can) Setup a face to face encounter
✘ Schedule (virtual) team events
✘ Provide all the possible (and necessary) context
✘ (In general) It takes longer than the in-person one
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8. Beinclusive
andAvoidtheFOMOandImposterSyndromes
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9. 3.
PersonalThoughts
My advices to you

10. 10
Scheduleyourregular1:1
onaweeklybasis

11. Showthemasearlyaspossible
thelevelofpsychologicalsafety
thattheywillhave
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12. 12
peoplearepeople
andnotemployeenumber1000

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thegoaloftheonboardingprocessisto
setthepersonforsuccess

14. Neveroverlookthe
PowerofNetworks
andContext
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15. youcanonlyonboard
Thepersononce
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16. 16
alwaystreatpeoplewithkindness

17. THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me on LinkedIn searching for
“Pedro Gustavo Torres”

18. Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made
and released these awesome resources for
free:
✘ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
✘ Photographs by Unsplash
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