Team Onboarding Playbook
Skill Verified ActiveDesign a structured onboarding experience that gets new team members productive in 30, 60, and 90 days. Use when a new hire is joining, when contractors or agency partners need to ramp up, when an existing team is restructuring and members are switching focus, or when current onboarding feels chaotic and slow. Also triggers when one person owns all the tribal knowledge and you need to capture it, when you keep losing people in their first 90 days, or when a new project has many fresh members joining at once. Useful for engineering, design, product, marketing, and operations roles.
To create predictable and efficient onboarding experiences that get new team members productive quickly and effectively.
Features
- Structured 30-60-90 day onboarding plans
- Framework for belonging, context, contribution, and mastery
- Role-specific onboarding overlays
- Detailed pre-day-1 preparation checklists
- Guidance on failure patterns and retrospective updates
Use Cases
- Onboarding new hires when no formal plan exists
- Ramping up contractors or agency partners
- Capturing critical tribal knowledge from departing team members
- Improving chaotic or slow existing onboarding processes
Non-Goals
- Ongoing performance management
- Training on specific technologies
- General documentation strategy
- Role definition or hiring processes
Workflow
- Start the playbook before the new person arrives.
- Pre-stage accounts, hardware, and access.
- Assign a buddy and provide guidance.
- Send welcome message and day-1 schedule.
- Focus week 1 on belonging and context.
- Check in daily first week, weekly first month.
- Run formal 30/60/90 milestone check-ins.
- Conduct a retrospective after 90 days to update the playbook.
Practices
- Onboarding process design
- Team development
- Knowledge transfer
Prerequisites
- Role definition for the new hire
- Existing team artifacts (docs, code, etc.)
- Defined team structure and mentors
- Information on required tools and access
Installation
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
VerifiedTrust Signals
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