The Onboarding Buddy Program
Set up an onboarding buddy program
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Entry PT-0207 · full textReceived
New hires keep asking the same questions and bothering the same two people: [TEAM SIZE, HOW OFTEN WE HIRE, WHO GETS INTERRUPTED, WHAT NEW HIRES STRUGGLE WITH MOST]. Design the buddy program: who qualifies as a buddy (not the manager, not the busiest expert), what the buddy owns in weeks 1-4 (the dumb questions, the tool quirks, the who-to-ask map), the time cost we acknowledge and credit, and the simple checklist so the program survives its founder losing interest. Include the one-paragraph ask to the first three buddies.
Inputs needed
- #Team size, hiring cadence, interrupted experts, new-hire struggles
The receipts
What good output looks like
Buddy selection avoids manager and busiest-expert traps; buddy scope concrete for weeks 1-4; time cost credited; checklist makes it self-running
The stream
Reading the room…