Remote Onboarding Week One: Manager Checklist Day by Day

In this episode, we cover Onboarding. The conversation opens with: Welcome to Remote Team Building : Let's Make Sense Of This Sh*t. I'm Alex. Listen for the key context, practical takeaways, and the most important points to carry forward.Welcome to Remote Team Building : Let's Make Sense Of This Shit. I'm Alex. If you lead an engineering team of about forty people spread across three time zones, the first week with a new hire often starts with a flood of messages and no clear order. You wonder what to send on day one, when to schedule the first live call, and how to handle async updates so the new person does not feel left out. This episode gives you a manager checklist for remote onboarding week one, day by day. It focuses on the exact actions you can copy into your Notion page today. We cover trust building moves that work whether you use recorded Loom updates or short video calls. The sequence keeps meetings short and leaves room for the new hire to review materials on their own schedule.Subscribe for weekly explainers — no guru fluff, just tactics you can apply this week.