Aboard Blog
Onboarding new team members has never been harder. New employees are joining from all over (the globe) and struggling to feel comfortable and productive in their new roles. While there are some fundamentals to cover before thinking about something like games, adding them to your onboarding plan can greatly spice up the experience for everyone […]
This is the first post in a series labelled Onboarding Nightmares. We’ll recount honest & true accounts of times where someone joined an organization only to have their first pivotal weeks full of confusion, frustration, and neglect (to name a few things!). These are real stories. All names have been faked and no real company […]
Onboarding is a layer cake. You can have several layers, but without a solid bottom layer, things get dicey. The more ambitious you are, the more beautiful of a layer cake you may sculpt. Every good layer cake must have a bottom layer, let’s start there. Step 1: Bottom Layer Your first, most important, step […]
This is the 3rd and final part in what we consider the Aboard ‘origins’ story. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 as the lead up to this final entry. Show me the money It’s early November 2020, and the Aboard team are about to set out on a dangerous and painful mission: fundraising. […]
2020 was a crazy year. I can imagine any new year goals you may have set did not include “attend 1,000 Zoom meetings”, “see how long I can wear these sweatpants for” or even “stay inside” (well, maybe some of our introvert readers had that last one in some form, you do you!). Aboard’s new […]
It’s May of 2014. I graduate with a degree I don’t care about (Automotive Marketing & Management). I have a million and one business ideas that I can’t do much about (at least that’s what I thought at the time). I am infatuated with technology (from a business perspective), but have limited knowledge of the […]
This is Part 2 of how Aboard came to be, check out Part 1 here! It’s early 2020, Lee and I have been building the idea of Aboard for about 4 to 5 months by now. We’d spoken to about a dozen HR and People leaders, as well as some entrepreneurs and other team leads. […]
The story of Aboard starts in Trinity Bellwoods Park in central (maybe central-west depending on who you ask) Toronto. One fateful Saturday, in late September 2019, Lee and I found ourselves with a notebook, some craft fizzy drink with hemp extract in it (🙄), and the intention to explore business ideas. At the time, we […]