Use Journals to Introduce Culture and Accelerate Onboarding

Maintaining our healthy company culture is a deeply held commitment for us at XPLANE, and we see onboarding as a critical part of that effort.

Joe Kornik | June 12, 2014

By Dave King

Maintaining our healthy company culture is a deeply held commitment for us at XPLANE, and we see onboarding as a critical part of that effort. Onboarding is more than ensuring people have the physical tools they need to do their work. They also need the social and emotional tools to feel empowered, supported and excited for their new chapter.

In support of this commitment, we are trying a new-to-us tool for welcoming new team members—an onboarding journal. The journal is effectively a diary, kept by new team member's for their first 60 days that uses a simple but effective Plus / Delta framework.

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