Remote onboarding tips from Asana’s Head of People, Anna Binder
✔️ How to use the pre-boarding period;
✔️ Creating a community around new hires using Slack;
✔️ Using Employees Resource Groups to connect new colleagues to the more tenured ones.
How WhatsApp Onboards New Hires Remotely
✔️ Give new starters user perspective by engaging them in the research process;
✔️ The importance of helping new hires get past the impostor syndrome.
How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom
✔️ Provide new hires previous All Hands videos;
✔️ Use "Monthly Social Connect" sessions to ensure a sense of belonging;
✔️ Use games to make the onboarding process fun.
Best practices for remote onboarding
✔️ Provide new hires with a templated document that outlines the “how-to” of the team (including elements such as links to documentation, code repositories, monitoring and logging tools, and the names of the members);
✔️ Use a "Friday Funday" Slack Thread, to ask different fun questions, such as “What is the most unbelievable fact about you?” with pictures;
✔️ Use pair struggling, in which remote new hires shadow experienced teammates, watching them debug issues and navigate challenges
A Guide For Onboarding Remote Engineers
✔️ Use peer programming to empower new developers;
✔️ Establish a code review process as part of onboarding;
The 13 best questions to ask during the remote onboarding process
✔️ When you’re co-located, it’s easier to understand the working style of a new employee, but how do you replicate that in a remote world?
✔️ In a remote work environment, working preferences are learned through trial-and-error, rather than the usual observation that happens in-person and preempts misunderstandings and work conflicts;
✔️ The 13 most essential questions on work preferences to ask – and what asking them will reveal to you during the remote onboarding process.
How to Onboard Remote Team Members
article✔️ Before the first day, ask new colleagues for a short bio about themselves which you can use to introduce them;
✔️ Provide new hires a mentor that could guide them.
The Almanac Guide to Remote Onboarding
article✔️ Set up a “shadow week” where new colleagues can attend a variety of team and stakeholder group meetings – including ones not directly relevant to the their core responsibilities;
✔️ Create a personal connection with your new hire before Day 1.
Virtual Onboarding with a Human Touch
✔️ Use storytelling and case studies to bring mission and values to life;
✔️ Organize new hires into teams to produce a common deliverable.
8 Steps to Creating a Virtual Employee Onboarding Program
article✔️ If you're having a few hours or a day with your new hires, don't talk about things that can be covered in an email, focus rather on things that can get them excited;
✔️ At random, have existing employees meet up with their new team member for a casual one-on-one coffee break to get to know each other. You can use the Donut app on Slack for that.
Keys to a safe and successful remote onboarding
article✔️ Send over an email right after the new colleague signed the offer to set expectations on what's going to happen;
✔️ You don't have to use just one buddy, you can use multiple buddies, from across the company, with different tenures;
✔️ Pay attention to the messages that you feel are not coming across. Make effort to translate core values and principles into easily recognizable actions.
How to Set Up a Remote Employee for Success on Day One
article✔️ Offering each new employee a session with IT to show him or her how the videoconferencing platform, communication channels, and other company systems work can alleviate first-day anxiety;
✔️ Some companies set up a “shadow week” in which the new hire attends a wide variety of team and stakeholder group meetings, even those that may feel less directly relevant to that new hire’s core responsibilities.
How to help new remote hires feel connected and confident
article✔️ Send over a nudge to new hires with a list of questions to ask their manager in the first 1:1;
✔️ Nudge managers to contact new employees before day 1.
