Pete is an SEO and Digital marketing expert. He has experience working for VC backed fintech companies and now runs a blogger outreach agency called OutreachPete.
All new workers are put into a separate [Slack] channel together and given instructional materials and initial training tasks to complete. We purposefully don’t intervene too much and allow them to work together to solve the tasks. You’d be amazed at how it creates an immediate sense of teamwork despite these individuals being spread across the globe. It takes a little bit longer than a purely autocratic approach, but it really pays dividends as you have a motivated and united workforce after onboarding is complete.
There was a time, not too long ago, when ‘onboarding’ hadn’t yet entered the jargon dictionary. Recruits had to work out where the coffee was, all by themselves. Training was all strip lighting, damp sandwiches and flip charts, and branded merch was reserved for the highest paying clients.