Playbook includes practical worksheets and templates: a timeline builder, 30-day goal map, competency map, content inventory, delivery plan, and mentoring and shadowing tools.

Stop improvising onboarding. Build the first 30 days on purpose.

You found the role, interviewed the candidates, and hired the right person.Then Week Two happens. Questions slow down. Energy changes. The new hire begins to disengage—and you are left wondering what went wrong.

This is not a hiring problem. It is an onboarding problem—and it can be fixed without a full HR department.

 

This book is for you if:

  • You hire employees but don’t have a dedicated HR or training department.
  • New-hire training depends on whoever is available.
  • Employees receive information, but not a structured 30-day path.
  • You need a repeatable system that does not require expensive software.

Get Your Free Onboarding Score

Answer six practical questions based on the book’s framework and receive an immediate onboarding-readiness score, a clear interpretation of your result, and a practical place to begin. A free LearnWorlds account is required to access and retain your results.

Six questions. Five minutes. Immediate results. No credit card required.

What's Inside the Book

Before anything gets taught, you decide the shape: a real timeline, a specific goal for each week, and the one weekly habit — a guided check-in — that holds the whole thing together.

What “good” actually looks like in this role, audited and made specific, so you know exactly what needs to be taught and who in your business can teach it.

How each part is taught—using the right method, purposeful practice, and structured mentoring and shadowing instead of “figure it out.”

 

Developed by Michael Lazo, a three-time Brandon Hall award-winning learning strategist and founder of WestStar Associates.