CHAPTER 11

Team Growth and Expansion

By Brittany Drury

Did any of your first days on a job entail walking into a new role, excited to get started, only to be given six hours of mandatory trainings and paperwork with a small group lunch squeezed in?

Nearly 90 percent of new employees decide whether to stay with a new employee within their first six months on the job,1 and this decision is influenced by their first days, weeks, and months of onboarding. Moreover, a study by the Wynhurst Group indicates that employees who experience a structured onboarding process are 58 percent more likely to remain with that organization after three years2—58 percent! Research and experience show that investing immediately and sincerely in each new hire’s experience ...

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