How to Crush Onboarding for Employee #1

Founder's Journal

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Episode 14: So you’ve just hired your first employee. You’re excited. It’s a big milestone for your business. Now what? Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) shares his tips to making sure your first (and future) employee is bought-in from day one. He’ll be sharing how you can establish the “why” and solidifying the “how” in your onboarding process so that they can hit the ground running. Timestamps: (01:01): What’s wrong with onboarding today (04:21): What does good onboarding look like (06:15): Establishing the WHY (07:52): Establishing the HOW Links: Onboarding Video Script Why “SOP” sucks Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about Shopify here: https://shopify.com/crazyones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome back to Founder's Journal. My audio diary made public for the
0:05.5	world. In 10 to 20 minutes, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I try to do all that I can to make
0:12.5	you a better business builder. Sometimes I share specific playbooks for running your business.
0:18.4	Other times I'll break down fascinating companies and share lessons we can apply to our own
0:22.5	businesses. And sometimes I'll talk about the emotional journey of being a founder. I'll
0:26.8	talk about my journey with anxiety, therapy, the loss of identity, imposter syndrome, and other
0:32.8	topics like this. But today, we're focusing on a playbook. I want to share my playbook for
0:39.1	onboarding employees because it's something that often gets neglected by founders and managers,
0:45.1	even though it's one of your most important jobs in building a company. Let's hop into it.
0:56.8	Don't you just love the sweet sound of success? Ah, that's the sound of another sale on Shopify, a tiny
1:08.0	business dream becoming a reality. Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of
1:14.3	businesses worldwide. Whether you're selling vintage concert posters or handmade faverj eggs,
1:20.5	Shopify makes selling online and in person as simple as saying, cha-ching. Packed with industry
1:27.4	leading tools, Shopify gives you complete control over your business and your brand without having
1:32.8	to learn any new skills in design or code. And get this, Shopify covers tons of sales channels.
1:39.3	You can even sell across TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. New to selling, Shopify offers 24-7
1:46.0	help and an extensive business course library so you'll feel supported every step of the way.
1:51.8	Now it's your turn to get serious about selling and try Shopify today. Sign up for a $1 per
1:57.5	month trial period at Shopify.com slash crazy ones all lowercase. That's Shopify.com slash crazy ones.
2:16.8	Most people treat employee onboarding like it's a joke. I treat it like we're serving our most
2:24.4	important customer. And before I talk through how I onboard employees, I wanted to share my theory
2:30.8	about why I believe leaders suck at doing this very important job. For starters, I think people get
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