Onboarding Technical Skills: From Practice Drills To Your Company’s Unique Game.
Technical skills are often a reason you hire someone-but that’s just the beginning.
The real challenge is having new hires adapt those skills to your business context.
Onboarding is not checking off what they know. It is guiding them to apply their expertise in ways that drive your company forward.
From drills to the game
To paraphrase Nate Johnson, soccer trainer to future stars: if you only practice drills, you’ll get good at drills, not at soccer.
The real magic happens when players take those skills and use them where it counts: on the field, working as a team, adapting to real opponents.
And the same is true with your employees.
From skill to real results
Prepare to onboard by thinking beyond technical skills. Consider how those skills will actually show up day-to-day. What must they know about:
- Your systems and tools
- How your processes work
- What’s unique about your company culture
- The outcomes you expect from the role
Take all these factors into account when filling out last week’s worksheet.
What next
Need your employees to update their work plans? Let’s talk about having them write their own job descriptions.
I get it now… how does that adapt to product training? Come back next week to find out.