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Mastering Employee Onboarding: Cultivating Company Culture

Name: Mastering Employee Onboarding: Cultivating Company Culture
Uploaded: 2024-10-13T14:11:36+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Matt Vaadi
Description: In this conversational excerpt, Matt Vaadi and Speaker B discuss effective onboarding practices that help new hires understand and align with a company’s…

13 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this conversational excerpt, Matt Vaadi and Speaker B discuss effective onboarding practices that help new hires understand and align with a company’s culture. They emphasize the importance of pre‑onboarding activities—maintaining multiple touchpoints between offer acceptance and the first day—to keep candidates engaged. Simple, personal rituals such as having the entire team sign a welcome note are highlighted as ways to make new employees feel valued from day one. The speakers also stress the need to convey the company’s story, core values, and broader impact, linking these elements to the employee’s personal life, family, and community, thereby fostering a deeper cultural connection.

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What are some best practices for onboarding employees to ensure that they understand and align with your culture?
Yeah, absolutely. Onboarding, I think that's been ingrained in many of us because we've also experienced maybe some not so great onboarding or heard the, the stories. So I'm a big believer, like think about all the time, energy, and effort it takes just to get a great candidate. They've accepted, and then maybe there's a period of time before they start. Well, what are you doing during that lead time up to their start date? Right? So it's almost like pre-onboarding. So the more touchpoints that you can make leading up to their first day, of course, the more the better. But I think just culturally, little things like having everyone on the team sign a note. And then for sure, we have them go through the story of Ketch. But how do we ensure that our culture, and we talk about core values and the overall impact of the company and what it means to them and their family, and then to our community as well.