# The Onboarding Sprint

> One day for everyone who joined this quarter. What the company actually does, who to ask, and thirty people who now know each other's names.

Package K-04 from Offsyte, corporate recreation in the UAE · [Facilitated team building](https://offsyte.ae/catalog/facilitated-team-building/) · Web page: https://offsyte.ae/packages/the-onboarding-sprint/

- **Duration:** 8 hrs
- **Ideal start time:** 09:00 — a normal working day, at the client's own office
- **Departure window:** 08:30–09:30
- **Group size:** 12 min — 40 max
- **Emirate / venue:** Anywhere in the UAE — the client's own premises by default
- **Season:** Year-round
- **Booking lead time:** 14 days for the first cohort, 7 for repeats

## Price per person, excluding 5% VAT

| Group size | Per person | Billed for at least |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| 12–19 people | AED 660 | 19 people |
| 20–34 people | AED 590 | 23 people |
| 35+ people | AED 530 | — |

A group smaller than a band's "billed for at least" figure is still served, and is invoiced for that many people.
Where a larger band costs less in total, it is quoted instead: groups of 32–34 are billed as 35 people at the rate for 35+ people.

Payment: 50% advance on signature. 100% cleared 3 working days before the event. Numbers lock 7 days prior.

## Why this is not the retail version

The alternative is what most companies already do: **a half-day induction run by HR, a slide deck, a policy handbook and a lunch.** It costs almost nothing and it is almost entirely forgotten, because it is delivered by the department a new joiner has least to do with, about the things that matter least on their first week.

**The three things this does differently are all structural.**

**The opening is delivered by a senior leader and it is rehearsed.** Twenty minutes on what the company actually does, from someone who decides things. Not a welcome video.

**Session three is the whole point.** Every function sends a person for six minutes to say who they are and what to come to them for. A new joiner's real problem in month one is not knowing who to ask, and ninety minutes solves more of it than a handbook ever will.

**And the buddy framework survives the day.** Each joiner leaves with a named buddy who has been written to, and three commitments their manager also receives. **The failure of every induction is that nothing happens on day two** — this is the part that costs the least and does the most.

**It is priced below K-01 The Alignment Day at AED 740 deliberately**, because it runs at the client's office with no hotel and a standard facilitator rather than a senior one. **This is the volume package in category K** — a company hiring steadily buys it every quarter.

## Timeline

- **−10 days** — Programme design session with HR. What new joiners consistently get wrong is the input
- **09:00** — Arrival, coffee, welcome kits. Seating is assigned and mixed by department
- **09:20** — Opening: the company in twenty minutes. Delivered by a senior leader, not by HR, and rehearsed
- **09:45** — Session one: what we actually do. The product or service, from the customer's side, not the org chart's
- **11:00** — Break
- **11:15** — Session two: how work moves. Who decides what, where things get stuck, and the five systems nobody explains
- **12:45** — Lunch — seated in mixed groups, not free choice
- **13:45** — Session three: the map. Every function sends someone for six minutes. Names, faces, and what to come to them for
- **15:15** — Break
- **15:30** — Session four: your first ninety days. Each joiner leaves with three written commitments and a named buddy
- **16:45** — Close. Group photograph
- **+5 days** — Buddy framework issued to every participant and their manager

## Included

- Programme design session with HR, built on what new joiners in this company consistently get wrong
- Facilitator for the full day
- Delivered at the client's own premises — no venue, no transport, no travel time
- Full-day catering — arrival coffee, two breaks, seated lunch
- Welcome kit per attendee
- Session materials, name cards and the function map
- Buddy framework — every joiner paired, with a written brief to the buddy and the manager
- Branded setup
- Photographer, half day — 40+ retouched stills within 5 working days
- Event coordinator on site

## Not included

- Venue hire — this runs at the client's office by design; a hotel is a AED 220/person add-on
- Role-specific or technical training
- HR compliance and policy induction — that is the client's, see below
- 5% VAT

## Weather and backup plan

- **Trigger:** None — indoor, at the client's own premises, no transport.
- **Fallback:** Where the client's space is unavailable, a contracted hotel meeting room at 72 hours' notice, at a AED 220/person supplement. Facilitator illness is covered by a contracted named backup; the programme design is documented rather than held in one head, so the substitution is clean.
- **You are told by:** Only if the location moves.

## Customisation options

- Delivered at a hotel instead of the client's office: AED 220/person
- Half-day format for cohorts under 12: AED 4,800/event
- 90-day follow-up session for the same cohort: AED 4,200/event
- Culture and UAE-context module for international hires: AED 2,400/event
- Individual profiling instrument with debrief: AED 180/person
- Filmed leadership opening, reusable across cohorts: AED 3,800
- Premium welcome kit: AED 90/person
- Quarterly cohort — four sprints across a year: −12% on the annual value

## Questions about The Onboarding Sprint

### How much does The Onboarding Sprint cost per person?

AED 660 per person for 12–19 people; AED 590 per person for 20–34 people; AED 530 per person for 35+ people. All figures exclude 5% VAT. A group below a band's minimum chargeable size is billed at that minimum: 19 people in the 12–19 band, 23 people in the 20–34 band. Where a larger band costs less in total, it is quoted instead: groups of 32–34 are billed as 35 people at the rate for 35+ people.

### How long does The Onboarding Sprint take, and when does it start?

8 hrs. Ideal start: 09:00 — a normal working day, at the client's own office. Departure window: 08:30–09:30.

### What is not included in The Onboarding Sprint?

Venue hire — this runs at the client's office by design; a hotel is a AED 220/person add-on; Role-specific or technical training; HR compliance and policy induction — that is the client's, see below; 5% VAT. These are stated before enquiry rather than raised at invoice time.

### What happens to The Onboarding Sprint if the weather turns?

Trigger: None — indoor, at the client's own premises, no transport. Fallback: Where the client's space is unavailable, a contracted hotel meeting room at 72 hours' notice, at a AED 220/person supplement. Facilitator illness is covered by a contracted named backup; the programme design is documented rather than held in one head, so the substitution is clean. You are told: Only if the location moves.

### How far in advance do we need to book The Onboarding Sprint?

The booking lead time is 14 days for the first cohort, 7 for repeats. Ramadan and December dates book out first.

## Read before you book

- [Onboarding activities for new employees in the UAE](https://offsyte.ae/blog/onboarding-activities-new-employees/): A first-day-to-90-day onboarding plan for a UAE company, what the probation rules mean for timing, and when a cohort day earns its cost over doing it in-house.
- [Team bonding activities for your own office](https://offsyte.ae/blog/team-bonding-activities-in-the-office/): What works inside your own building on no budget, the point at which free stops working, and what it costs to bring a real session to your premises instead.

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