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title: "5 Strategies to Enhance the Onboarding Experience"
url: https://thecoreresults.com/5-strategies-to-enhance-the-onboarding-experience/
description: "Five practical ways to make sales onboarding clearer, more relevant and easier to reinforce."
published: 2018-10-20
updated: 2018-10-20
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# 5 Strategies to Enhance the Onboarding Experience

Published 2018-10-20

Strategy field note

20 October 2018 · Strategy

A first impression shapes how a new employee understands the role, the team and the standards expected of them. Effective onboarding therefore needs more than an information packet and a list of systems.

## A practical five-part sequence

Clarify the role’s outcomes, introduce the competencies behind those outcomes, provide realistic practice, make early feedback frequent, and record progress against the same expectations introduced on day one.

This sequence helps connect training to daily work. It also gives the manager and employee a shared language for discussing what has been learned and what still needs attention.

> Onboarding is strongest when expectations, practice and coaching use the same performance criteria.