Onboarding New Hires
Skill VerifiedHelp users onboard new team members effectively. Use when someone is planning onboarding for a new hire, starting a new job themselves, designing a first-90-days plan, or trying to ramp up new employees faster.
This skill offers structured advice and core principles for effectively onboarding new hires, including designing 30-60-90 day plans, fostering belonging, and engineering early wins. It synthesizes insights from 14 product leaders and provides actionable questions and common mistakes to avoid.
Versioning
- warning:Release ManagementThere is no version information (e.g., from a manifest or CHANGELOG) for this skill, and installation instructions do not specify a version, making it difficult to track updates.
Practical Utility
- info:Usage examplesThe skill provides example questions for users, but lacks concrete end-to-end usage examples demonstrating input, invocation, and output.
- info:Edge casesThe skill identifies common mistakes but does not explicitly document other edge cases or failure modes with symptoms and recovery steps.
Installation
npx skills add refoundai/lenny-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.
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