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When I joined my last team, I inherited our client onboarding process, which lived in a mix of email threads, outdated docs, and tribal knowledge. Average onboarding time was around 21 days, and every new client had a different experience. My first step was to map the actual workflow: I shadowed 4 onboarding managers, pulled 3 months of tickets, and built a simple swimlane diagram in Lucidchart. That made the pain points obvious: duplicate data entry in three tools, unclear ownership at two handoff points, and no standard checklist. I pulled a small working group (sales, onboarding, support) and we redesigned the process into a single 10-step checklist in our CRM, with clear SLAs and owners. We also created email templates and a shared dashboard tracking cycle time and NPS. Within two quarters, average onboarding time dropped from 21 to 11 days, handoff-related issues fell by 60%, and new-client NPS in the first 90 days improved from 36 to 52.
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