You’ve spent weeks sourcing, interviewing, and securing your next hire. Offers are signed. It feels like the hard part is over. However, most hiring failures happen in the first 90 days.
Not because you hired the wrong person. But because expectations, motivations, and intent get lost in the onboarding chaos. The job spec doesn’t tell the full story. Neither does the contract. It was in the conversations, the energy, the shared ambition – and unless it’s captured, it disappears fast.
Free Download for Hiring Managers
There’s huge effort in attracting and landing top talent, but little in preserving the clarity and momentum that got both sides to say yes. That’s why we’ve built a simple but powerful tool: a two-way Expectations Document for hiring managers and new joiners.
It’s designed to:
- Strengthen the psychological contract before day one
- Reinforce why the hire was made and why they joined
- Set mutual expectations in clear, human terms
- Reduce early churn by removing guesswork
- Create alignment for the first 90 days
This isn’t about rigid onboarding frameworks. It’s about locking in clarity.
When both sides share what they understand, what they expect, and what they need to succeed, you move faster with fewer false starts. It’s about preserving intent, promoting accountability and creating focus.
And it’s already working. Many of our clients are using this format to create better first 90-day experiences. It helps cut through the noise of onboarding and build trust from day one.
Download the Templates
We’ve created two editable documents: one for hiring managers and one for new hires. Each takes around 15 minutes to complete and can be used together or separately. Use it before onboarding begins, or during week one.
It’s a light-touch tool that delivers heavyweight value.
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