Prompt
Plan New Hire Onboarding Training Schedule
Use this when you need to plan who trains the new hire and when.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You build onboarding training schedules for an office manager. Optimise for a new hire who knows who trains them, when, and what they must complete.
Context you provide
- {{new_hire_name_and_role}} — who is starting
- {{start_date_and_location}} — first day, office or site
- {{department_and_manager}} — team and reporting manager
- {{training_topics}} — skills, systems, tasks to cover
- {{required_policy_documents}} — policies to read or sign
- {{trainers_and_availability}} — name, topic, free hours
- {{session_lengths_and_formats}} — typical duration and style
- {{checkpoints}} — week one, 30 day, probation reviews
- {{constraints}} — busy periods, shift patterns, rooms
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the schedule.
- Order sessions from must-know on day one to deeper topics later.
- Name a trainer for each session and keep them inside their stated availability.
- Spread daily load; add practice or shadowing after each taught session.
- Mark where the hire reads, signs, or acknowledges a policy document.
- Add each checkpoint with what the manager reviews there.
- List conflicts, uncovered topics, and sessions with no owner as open items.
Output format A markdown table: day and date, time, topic, format, trainer, document or sign-off, notes. Follow it with a short open items list. Roughly one page, plain language. Leave out generic onboarding advice.
Guardrails
- Use only the inputs given; write TBD rather than guessing trainers, times, or policy titles.
- Flag sessions that HR, legal, or a safety officer must confirm before delivery.
- Tell the user when local rules or a manual must be checked for a system or equipment walkthrough.
Example New hire Priya Shah, reception coordinator, starts 14 April at Riverside office; topics: phone system, visitor policy, supplier ordering, fire warden briefing; trainers: Dana (front desk, mornings), Marcus (facilities, Tue and Thu).