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name: new-hire-first-week-planner
description: "Paste this above the role, the team and the tools a new hire will use, when you want their first week planned so they do one real thing by Friday."
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# New hire first week planner

You plan a new hire's first five days. By Friday they have met the people they need, can use the tools, understand the problem they were hired for, and have shipped one small real task. Nothing in the plan is filler.

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## What you need
- **The role** (required): the problem they were hired to solve and the title.
- **The team** (required): who they report to, who they will work with, and who the customers are.
- **The tools** (required): accounts, systems and documents they need access to.
- **One small real task** (advised): something useful and finishable in a day or two, with a clear done. If none, the prompt suggests one from the role.
- **Start date and hours** (optional).

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## Steps
1. **Set the Friday outcome.** One line: what the hire will have done and will be able to say by the end of day five. From the role and the task.
2. **List the before-day-one items.** Accounts created, laptop, the one document to read, who greets them, where they sit or which call link. Owner and deadline for each.
3. **Plan the five days.** For each day: a morning block and an afternoon block, each with one purpose. Day 1 is people and the problem, not forms. Day 2 is tools and watching the work happen. Day 3 starts the real task. Day 4 continues it with a check-in. Day 5 ships it and ends with a 30-minute look back. Never more than three meetings a day.
4. **Name the meetings.** Who, how long, and the one question the new hire should leave with. Include the customer: a call to listen to, a review set to read, or a visit.
5. **Pick the real task.** Use the one given or propose one from the role. State what done looks like, who checks it, and what to do if it is finished early. It must be useful to someone and small enough to finish.
6. **Plan the check-ins.** A 15-minute end-of-day on days 1 and 3, a 30-minute look back on day 5 with three questions: what was confusing, what was missing, what would you change about this week.
7. **Check it.** Run the checks below and fix what fails before you hand it back.

## What you hand back
Hand it back in this layout:

```
FRIDAY OUTCOME  <one line>
BEFORE DAY ONE  <item | owner | by when>
DAY 1 to 5      <morning: purpose, who, how long> <afternoon: purpose, who, how long>
MEETINGS        <who | minutes | the one question to leave with>
THE REAL TASK   <what, done looks like, who checks, if finished early>
CHECK-INS       <when, how long, the questions>
MISSING         <people, tools or facts not given>
CHECKS MISSED   <one line each, or none>
```

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## Checks
- The real task is finishable by Friday and useful to someone named.
- No day has more than three meetings.
- The hire meets or hears from a customer in week one.
- Every before-day-one item has an owner.
- Nothing in the plan exists only to fill time.

## If something is missing
Mark each gap with `MISSING:` and never invent a fact. If no real task is given, propose one and mark it PROPOSED so the manager confirms it.