Employee onboarding checklist in Slack
Give every new hire the same complete first week — tracked, owner-assigned, in Slack.
Onboarding spans people and days: IT provisions accounts, HR handles paperwork, the manager sets up a buddy and first tasks. Miss one and the new hire’s first week stalls.
Tovo runs onboarding as a checklist in a channel, with each task owned by the right team and overdue nudges so nothing slips. Save it as a template and every new hire gets the identical, complete run.
📋 Onboarding — Priya (Engineering)
send before day 1
Clear ownership
Every task is assigned to IT, HR or the manager — no “I thought you had it”.
Nothing slips
Due dates and automatic nudges keep day-1 tasks from falling through.
Consistent every time
A saved template means every new hire gets the identical, complete first week.
Owners see their tasks
The App Home tab gathers each person’s onboarding tasks across every hire.
How to set it up
From install to running it — step by step.
- 1
Start from a template
Run /tovo start and pick your onboarding template, or mention @tovo with the steps in plain English the first time to create one.
- 2
Assign each task to a team
Give every step an owner — IT, HR, the manager — by @mentioning them on the line so the right people are accountable.
- 3
Post it to your people channel
Confirm the parsed checklist and Tovo posts the onboarding run as one live message in #people-ops.
- 4
Let nudges do the chasing
Owners get a DM (and email, if enabled) when they’re up, and Tovo nudges anything that goes past its due date.
- 5
Reuse for the next hire
Because it’s a template, the next new hire gets the exact same complete checklist — just launch a fresh run.
Onboarding checklist — FAQ
- Can different teams own different onboarding steps?
- Yes. Assign each task to the right owner — IT, HR, the manager — and each person is pinged only for their steps and nudged if they slip.
- How do I reuse the checklist for every new hire?
- Save it as a template. For each new hire, run /tovo start to launch a fresh onboarding run with the same steps, owners and due offsets.
- Do new hires need to install anything?
- No. The onboarding run is just a Slack message in your people channel. The people completing tasks tap a button or react — nothing to install.
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Set it up once, run it forever. Your team already lives in Slack — your process should too.
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