A Full Onboarding Calendar Is a Warning Sign
Four weeks, 23 calendar invites, a buddy program, an eleven-section Notion page. By week five she still couldn't name who owned the function next to hers.
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What I Told the New CFO First
Day one, he asked what to look at before the board meeting in two weeks. I told him three things, none of them in the model he'd been sent.
The remote hire you onboarded by Slack
Laptop shipped Monday. Welcome message in #team-general. Six weeks of Slack threads later, she still didn't know what the company expected of her.
The senior hire everyone quietly wrote off
Twenty years of experience, six months in, still asking the same questions. The hire wasn't wrong. The onboarding was.