Wes Spencer argues that a strong first impression during onboarding triggers dopamine and makes new hires want to learn fast. When employees feel motivated early, they take courses on their own time to catch up and help the team.
Motivation is a huge part of why people do things. And if you can motivate them and give them that wow experience in the beginning, they're going to immediately have that dopamine hit that goes, man, I need to get my onboarding done because this is a company that wants to take care of me and wants to see me succeed. Then they're not going to stretch your 28 days of onboarding out to 128 days to where you forget to follow through. They're going to knock it out. I remember some of my employees, they would knock it out after hours. They'd be taking their ConnectWise University courses because they're like, dude, I want to get in with the team and I want to help the team out. Yeah.
