The heart of leaderships is relationships. If you can’t connect with others, you can’t lead them. This is why the core of a strong onboarding program for new team members must be relationship building. This is best accomplished by curating different ways for different people to interact and connect.

• Environment – Adjust your thinking from assembling the best athletes to building synergistic teams.
• Values – Clarifying intentions up front is critical. Make sure your new team members and organization understand what matters and why.
• Attitude – Relationships take time to incubate. Inspire and enable that incubation by managing the ideas and experiences your new hires are exposed to early on.
• Relationships – This is the heart of leadership and therefore must be the core of onboarding. Don't assume they'll happen naturally, curate them.
• Behaviors – Have a bias for action. Get your new hires engaged in productive work sooner rather than later so they can start racking up early wins to build everyone’s confidence.

Read the full article on Forbes.com

Read the full article including a description of how HATCH curates relationships on Forbes.com