New-Hire Onboarding Expert
Erik Silk is the Co-Founder and CEO of welcomary, an employee onboarding tool that helps new employees know what to do, who to meet, what everything means, and how to get the lay of the land. Previously, while working at Capital One, he built a lightweight internal knowledge management tool that enjoyed regular usage by over half of the 50,000+ employee base. Erik has held Product Management positions at Volkswagen, Capital One, and CarNow, among others.
Areas of Expertise
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Onboarding
Erik can help companies tailor onboarding to their employee’s needs. He can help people organizations build out a centralized knowledge repository, standardize onboarding content across functions, and identify gaps in existing onboarding processes.
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Building out a knowledge repository
Erik can help companies create and manage their information resources. He can advise on the creation of a central, accessible, and navigable knowledge repository that will improve the dissemination of business-crucial information and preserve institutional knowledge from departing employees to help new hires and your existing team.
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Best manager-to-employee practices
Erik can advise companies on building positive relationships between managers and their employees. He can help companies foster productive relationships between team/hiring managers and those they oversee and hire.
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Establishing culture consistent with company values
Erik can help companies establish and iterate on a company culture that aligns with their value and mission. He can advise leadership and People functions on how to build a community that people want to work in to improve retention.