Why managers should care about onboarding

With a little planning and effort, your newcomers can get up to speed very quickly. There will be no upsetting delays or confusing questions – or at least, not as many.

Imagine that the newcomer greets his or her new boss and then finds all his equipment already set up. A sheet from Help Desk about how to login, how to access the company intranet and information on where to find answers or submit questions – everything's provided.

That's in an ideal world – is the situation in your company similar? Onboarding impacts your productivity when you join a new company, and even when you're only transitioning to a new role in your current organization.