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New hire 30-day check-in template

A month in: what makes sense, what does not, and what they need to do the job properly.

30 minutesFor Managers and people teamsAgenda room
Change the agenda first

The agenda, with a time for each part

  1. How the first month has been6 min
    • What has been better than you expected, and what worse?
  2. What is still unclear6 min
    • What do you still have to ask somebody every time?
  3. What you need that you do not have6 min
    • Which tool, access or person are you missing?
  4. What surprised you5 min
    • What do we do here that seemed odd when you arrived?
  5. Goals for the next sixty days7 min
    • What do you want to own by then?

How the notes read afterwards

A made-up example, so you can see the shape. In a real call each line carries the words that were said and who said them.

First month. Team is welcoming; the codebase took longer to set up than it should.

Unclear. Who decides when design and engineering disagree.

Next sixty days. Own the import feature, and be on call from week ten.

Running it well

Ways to change it

At ninety daysAdd ten minutes of feedback both ways, with examples.
Run by the people teamSame questions, without the manager, and share the themes rather than the names.

When to skip it. Never. A month is when people decide whether they made the right choice.

Questions

What is a 30-day check-in?

A short meeting a month after somebody starts, to hear how it is going and fix what is in their way.

What should you ask a new hire after 30 days?

What is better and worse than they expected, what is still unclear, what they are missing, and what they want to own next.

What happens in the room

Everybody joins from the link, with no account. The agenda sits beside the call and each item fills in with what was said about it, under the name of the person who said it.

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