| name | onboarding-30-60-90 |
| description | Use when a hire is accepted and you need to plan their first ninety days — builds a milestone plan plus a pre-day-one setup checklist so a new person ramps deliberately instead of being left to figure it out. |
Onboarding 30/60/90
A playbook for turning "someone starts on the third" into a deliberate first ninety days. It produces two things: a milestone plan the manager agrees to, and a setup checklist that guarantees day one is ready. The failure mode it prevents: a new hire who spends week one waiting on a laptop and month one guessing what "good" looks like.
Gather the inputs
- Pull the role, level, manager, and start date. If the role is thinner than the offer implied, resolve it with the manager before planning — you can't ramp someone toward an undefined target.
- Ask the manager the one question that anchors everything: what does "productive" look like at 30, at 60, and at 90 days? Capture concrete, observable outcomes, not adjectives.
Build the milestone plan
- 30 days — learn and land. Access to everything, the people to meet, the systems and context to absorb, and one small real task completed end to end so they've shipped something.
- 60 days — contribute. Owning a defined piece of work with support, giving and getting first feedback, and a check on whether the role matches the offer.
- 90 days — own. Operating at role level on their own work, with a clear read on fit and a development direction for the next quarter.
- For each milestone write: the outcome, who supports it, and how you'll know it's met. Get the manager's explicit agreement — an un-agreed plan won't survive the job.
Build the day-one checklist (work backward from the start date)
- Accounts, access, and permissions requested with a lead time that lands before day one.
- Equipment ordered and tracked to delivered, not just requested.
- Payroll and benefits enrollment kicked off; required paperwork listed and collected.
- A welcome plan: first-day schedule, an assigned buddy or first contacts, and the first task waiting.
Run the check-ins
- Hold real 30/60/90 reviews with the manager: on-track, needs-attention, or off — and adjust the plan before drift becomes a bad quarter.
Quality bar
- Every milestone has an observable outcome the manager agreed to.
- Every checklist item has an owner and a due date before the start date.
- Day-one items are verified ready-the-day-before, not merely requested.
- Onboarding closes on genuine productivity, not a ticked list.
Output format
30/60/90 plan (outcome + support + done-signal per milestone, manager-agreed) → day-one checklist (item, owner, due date, status) → check-in notes at each milestone with an on-track / needs-attention call.
