{"id":10,"date":"2024-12-28T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.anydb.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:51:17","slug":"the-one-key-to-employee-onboarding-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anydb.com\/blog\/the-one-key-to-employee-onboarding-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Key to Employee Onboarding Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you read the general literature (for example: here<\/a>, here<\/a>, or here<\/a>) on the best practices for new employees to be successful after joining a company, you will see many things which are supposed to help. From first-day team lunches to setting up their email, they all seem to state that those are important for success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While those might be important, they’re not the most important and are definitely not what makes people successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite thing to say is that: <\/strong>\u201cSome things are way more important all things being equal\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could certainly do without a lot of those things and still have successful onboarding happen. However, in every single case I have seen failures because the one key thing was either not done or done incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have found that the most important thing for onboarding success is to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlways set clear expectations first-day first thing when a new employee joins by your organization\u2019s leader\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New employees who join an organization start with a clean slate. They have no prejudices or other notions that they have picked up yet. They simply don\u2019t know what to expect or what their job and role will be. Having an onboarding meeting first-day first meeting sets the stage in so many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The employee simply walks into this meeting really unsure of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n