. Onboarding is a comprehensive process that is designed to integrate new team members as seamlessly as possible into their roles, teams and organizational culture.

Organizational culture exists, it exists whether leadership takes a proactive approach or not. It is true, there are many organizations that dedicate time and resources into designing, improving and/or maintaining culture and are doing it well. However, for any number of reasons there are those organizations that a gap between the stated or hoped for culture does not align with the organizational policies and practices.