This guidance describes the first meeting a manager ought to have with a new team member.

When someone new joins your team, we recommend you communicate early about your key priorities.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to ask questions about everything they don't understand.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

New Directs need guidance on how to start on the right foot. We recommend a series of meetings in their first weeks, one of which makes clear: you have to create and maintain trusting relationships within the organization to succeed.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to be on time with themselves, their work, and their commitments.

The Manager Tools Onboarding Checklist. Every task necessary to help a new hire become effective as quickly as possible.

The Manager Tools Onboarding Checklist. Every task necessary to help a new hire become effective as quickly as possible.

Your questions, our answers on what to do once you make a candidate an offer to turn them into a great team member.