This article was written by Ken Leaver who comes from a product & commercial background. He has founded multiple companies and held senior product positions at SEA tech companies like Lazada and Pomelo Fashion.
Ken runs his own agency that helps early stage companies execute faster and cheaper. Check out his linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenleaver/
Guest Author: Ken Leaver
In the old days I used to think like many others that it takes a new hire about 90 days to add value… now I think it is not more than 2.
When you ask someone with this viewpoint “why does it take 90 days for a new hire to add value to your company?”
You will get a plethora of things like…
1 – They need to learn how we do things
2 – They need to learn our culture
3 – They need to get to know the people
But in the “Everything is a Task” system I use now (which is not that hard for pretty much anyone to use, and at almost any scale)..
1 – Literally everything is a process in clickup and so ‘learning how we do things’ is usually possible within the first day as it is all very visible
2 – We operate based on a disciplined system of ‘everything is a task’ and therefore that is the ‘culture’.
I find a person will have this down within 1-2 days, and there is nothing else about the ‘culture’ that i want them to learn as that makes it simple.
3 – They don’t need to get to know anyone else to be effective.
We have pretty much zero meetings, everything is a task, and if they need someone’s help they just tag that person in Clickup and they will get support almost immediately.
Not because of a relationship, rather because that is the process.
Who’s gonna do things faster? The company that onboards in 90 days or the one that does it in 2?
Try the “Everything is a Task” philosophy (link in the comments) and let me know how it goes 🙂
