# onboarding
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49:38Workplace Surgery: new job red flagsAl Elliott: I love it. I love it. Um, you did a segment. If this, if you're listening, the person who wrote this, and also you, um, you're, you have a similar thing. Leanne did a little segment, um, a little while ago, aEP 294 · 21 Apr 2026·workplace surgery· 49:38–52:5247:34Workplace Surgery: New hire 40 minutes late on day oneAl Elliott: Fair enough. Great answer. Great answer. So question number 3, should I get rid of a new hire after a bad first day? So this person writes, I recently gave a young guy a chance. He was eager to get his foot iEP 246 · 5 Nov 2025·workplace surgery· 47:34–52:4042:08Workplace Surgery — new job full of red flagsAl Elliott: That's why she's a psychologist. Okay, so question number 3 and the final one. I've just started a new job and it's full of red flags. Should I get out now? I accepted a lower-level role out of necessity afteEP 242 · 21 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 42:08–44:4524:27Why Onboarding Is Just... BadNora Burns: Onboarding is just Yeah, onboarding is just bad. It's just bad. And the thing is, we have organizations that are doing a lot of work on designing really solid employee onboarding experiences. And here are allEP 161 · 9 Jan 2025·interview· 24:27–27:3330:40The 3rd characteristic: obsession with onboardingJonathan Bennett: Yeah, it's not. There's some decent and emerging literature in it. I think, and just encourage everybody to read Amy Edmondson's book called Psychological Safety. It's a really solid read that I think sEP 104 · 6 Jun 2024·interview· 30:40–40:4440:44The true cost of replacing an employeeAl Elliott: I want to know, what else do we need to know about onboarding that you've not just said? Jonathan Bennett: It starts before the job ad gets posted and before you know any of the candidates. It shouldn't startEP 104 · 6 Jun 2024·interview· 40:44–44:238:11Google's 15-minute onboarding secretAl Elliott: Well, Inc magazine had an article about how Google uses a 15-minute conversation to onboard. So Google did a load of research to understand why some new employees adapted quicker than others. They concluded wEP 95 · 7 May 2024·news roundup· 8:11–12:2019:29Building culture from day one and finding great managersPatti Simpson: I think you have to start with where you are. It's really important that you, you know, when things— you set your standard of what you want to do. And if culture is important, that starts when you have oneEP 66 · 23 Nov 2023·interview· 19:29–23:1557:12Onboarding as a brand momentAl Elliott: And in fact, um, Ollie talked then about Google, which I forget, I think they call it 20% time or something they did back in the day. And the idea is that you go off and you do your own thing for 20% of the wEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 57:12–58:2558:25Extend what you already do for customers to employeesAl Elliott: You know, here's another example, an onboarding process that's not just, here's a bunch of stuff, good luck, see you later, right? It really has to be, you know, thought through. And I think, you know, brandiEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 58:25–60:33
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