Gemini: Creatives & Entrepreneurs

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Welcome back to Gemini: Creatives & Entrepreneurs, your resource for building a durable business. In our last issue, we drafted a job description to find the perfect person to help you grow. Now, you've found them. The crucial next step is to ensure they succeed from the moment they walk through the virtual door.

For many founders, the excitement of bringing on a new team member quickly meets the reality of the first week: chaos. You're trying to do your own job while also training someone new, and the new team member is excited but unsure of where to start. This often leads to a disorganized, overwhelming experience that wastes time, creates confusion, and undermines the confidence of your new hire. A great hire can be lost in the first month due to a poor onboarding experience.

Gemini brings order to this chaos. It helps you transform your mental checklist of "things I need to tell them" into a structured, professional onboarding plan. By outlining a clear daily schedule, Gemini ensures you cover everything from software logins to brand voice, setting your new team member up for a successful and productive start.

Let's build your onboarding plan.

Your Gemini Task: Think about the person you just hired (even hypothetically). What is their role, and what are the main tools and tasks they will be responsible for?

Ask Gemini (to build your onboarding plan): "Act as a seasoned operations manager. I've just hired the Virtual Assistant from the job description you helped me create. Now I need to build their onboarding plan for the first week.

Role: Virtual Assistant
Key Tools: Google Workspace, Slack, Beehiiv, X (Twitter)
Key Initial Tasks: Managing my inbox, scheduling social media, proofreading.

Please create a structured onboarding plan for each of their first five days. For each day, provide a theme and three-to-four key action items. Ensure the plan covers administrative setup, tool training, initial task handoffs, and a review at the end of the week."

With this framework, you're not just onboarding one person; you're building a repeatable system for every new team member.

Ultimately, great onboarding is one of the most powerful investments you can make in your business. A structured first week converts a new hire from a visitor into a confident contributor and lays the foundation for a loyal, effective, and scalable team.

Each edition of Gemini: Creatives & Entrepreneurs will deliver:

In our next issue, we'll focus on alignment and direction. We'll explore how to use Gemini to set clear quarterly goals for your business (and your new team member) to ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction.

To your amplified success,
The Native Think Team