New employees take too long to learn the work
Turn recurring work and decisions into usable guidance.
01 · What is usually happening?
A new person joins and learns by following someone around. The senior person is busy, so training is whatever happens between jobs. Weeks pass before the new joiner is useful, and mistakes are made along the way.
The business never writes down what a good first month looks like.
The question people usually ask“Why is it taking so long?”
The more useful question“What must a new person learn, in what order, and who teaches each part?”
02 · Common causes
- 01No written list of what to learn
- 02Training depends on the senior person's free time
- 03The work is explained verbally and differently each time
- 04No checkpoints to see whether they have learned it
- 05Documents and instructions are scattered
- 06New people are afraid to ask
03 · What to check now0 of 6 checked
04 · What good looks like
- 01A short first-month plan for each role.
- 02Named teacher and checkpoints.
- 03Instructions in one place, in plain words.
- 04Common mistakes are written and shown.
- 05A way to ask questions without waiting for the senior person.
05 · Where this connects
This rarely stays in one department
What it can lead to: Weeks of paid time are spent before a new person is useful.
Start from a problem
Work flows left to right, top to bottomKEYMost important for manufacturing
These support every part of the business
Problem
New employees take too long to learn the work
Usually connected to
How it spreads
- People
What it can lead to: Weeks of paid time are spent before a new person is useful.
lamplamp could turn existing instructions and chats into a first-month plan.
08 · lamp
lamp could keep this moving
lamp is not available yet. These are things it is being built to do.
- lamp could turn existing instructions and chats into a first-month plan.
- lamp could answer a new joiner's questions in their own language.
- lamp could show which steps they have completed.
- lamp could tell the teacher where the new person is stuck.
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