All core values
People
Hospitality
Making newcomers and teammates feel genuinely welcome, oriented, and able to contribute quickly.
Behaviors
- Prepares for new arrivals before they start
- Introduces people across the team proactively
- Checks in after first meetings and first failures
Anti-patterns
- Onboarding as paperwork
- Leaving newcomers to figure it out alone
- Hospitality only for senior guests
Reinforce it with
- Structured first-week experiences
- Buddy systems beyond onboarding
- Norms that invite contribution from day one
Hospitality is the welcome that turns strangers into teammates.