Onboarding workflows

Sageon Business gives you template-driven onboarding checklists — standardise the new-starter experience without manually creating tasks every time.

Onboarding templates

A template is a reusable list of onboarding tasks. Examples:

  • "Standard new starter" — IT setup, payroll, induction sessions, first-week 1:1s
  • "Engineering" — adds repo access, dev environment, code-review pairing
  • "Sales" — adds CRM training, pipeline shadowing, first-prospect call

Create templates via Tribe → Settings → Onboarding templates.

Each task captures:

  • Title"Set up email and Slack"
  • Description — what done looks like
  • Owner role — Hiring manager / HR / IT / Buddy / New starter
  • Due offset days — when relative to start date (e.g. -3 = 3 days before)
  • Sort order

Start an onboarding journey

When a new starter joins:

  1. Tribe → Onboarding → + Start onboarding
  2. Pick the employee and template
  3. Sageon Business creates per-employee task instances with calculated due dates

Tracking progress

The Onboarding tab shows live progress per new starter — % complete, overdue tasks, who's responsible. Owners get notified of their tasks.

Auto-completion

Some tasks auto-complete when the corresponding action happens elsewhere:

  • "Add to org chart" → ticks when line manager is set
  • "Issue first contract" → ticks when document uploaded
  • "Add to payroll" → ticks when salary set on profile

Tips

  • Start small. A 30-task template that gets ignored is worse than a 10-task one that gets used.
  • Owner = person, not team. "HR" doesn't get reminders — Sarah does.
  • Review templates quarterly. Things you used to do manually might now be auto-completable.