3 finished designs
Welcome to the team flyer for a joinery's new cabinet maker
A welcome flyer is written for the existing team, not the new person, so it answers the question the team actually has: who is this, what will they do, and what happens in their first month. These three are for Carrow & Sons Joinery, a fictional workshop that puts a one page welcome on the lunchroom wall and in the team chat for every new starter, and they are all about the same cabinet maker.
The 3 designs
The same business laid out three ways, on three templates and three colour themes. Every price, name and time on these was written for this example, so you can judge the layouts on real content rather than placeholder text.
Welcome poster
Welcome Dana Whitlock
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Welcome from the MD
A Welcome From Ian Carrow
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First four weeks
Dana’s First Four Weeks
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What each layout is doing
The poster design is a portrait card on a green field, with the wordmark at the top, a large image panel, the name bridging the panel and the field, the role beneath and a welcome pill at the foot. It is the one that goes on the lunchroom wall, and the image slot here holds a hand plane and shavings rather than a face, with the note that a real photo goes in only once the person has agreed. The quote design is a single oversized quotation with an author and a title, which reads well in a chat thread where an image is the whole message. The four weeks design is the operational one, a radial ring with four numbered phases in the corners and the start date in the hub, and it is the version that goes to the team leads rather than to the wall.
How to adapt these
For a remote team, the quote layout is the one to use, because a chat message is where a distributed team actually meets a new colleague, and a 192 character welcome from the person who hired them travels better than a poster nobody will stand in front of. For a new manager, keep the four weeks layout and use the four phases for who they will meet rather than what they will build, since the first month of a management role is introductions. For an intake of six, put the six names on the poster layout and give the four weeks page to the shared induction, so the plan is printed once rather than six times.
What makes these work
The poster says role, team and start date in under 40 words
Dana Whitlock, cabinet maker, kitchens team, welcome to the team, starts Monday 14 September. That is the whole flyer. A welcome notice that runs to a paragraph does not get read on a lunchroom wall, and the three facts a colleague needs are the name, the team and the day the person appears.
The four week plan tells the team what to expect, week by week
Week 1 induction and safety, week 2 shadowing Marco on the Ferris Street kitchen, week 3 a first solo carcass build, week 4 a review with Ian. Everyone on the floor now knows when the new person is watching and when they are working, which is the practical thing a welcome poster can do that a handshake cannot.
The quote is 192 characters from the person who hired her
A welcome is somebody vouching for a new colleague, so the quote design gives the whole page to the managing director doing exactly that: the team she joins, the years she brings, and the job she starts on. Ian Carrow’s name and title under it are what make it a welcome rather than an announcement.
Questions people ask
What goes on a welcome to the team flyer?
The name, the role, the team, the start date and one line of background. The four week plan is a useful extra where a team needs to know when the new person becomes available. What to leave off is anything the person did not volunteer, including where they live, their previous salary and personal details they shared in the interview.
Should I use the new starter’s photo?
Only if they say yes, and ask after they have started rather than in the offer pack, where saying no is harder. None of these three uses a face: the poster design fills its image slot with a workshop object instead. If you do use a photo, the same consent applies to the team chat and any public post, which are different audiences.
What should the rest of the team learn from it?
Three things: what the person is here to do, who they will be working alongside, and when they are actually available for work. The four weeks design covers the third, which is the one a welcome usually leaves out and the one that causes friction when a team lead assigns work to somebody still in induction.
Is a first month plan appropriate on a poster?
On an internal poster, yes. It is a commitment the employer is making in front of the team, which is a good reason to write it carefully and a good reason to keep it. Do not print a plan you cannot honour, and do not put performance targets on it, since an onboarding plan and a probation review are different documents.
Which size works for the team chat?
Facebook Post at 1200 by 630 is native for all three designs, and that aspect ratio previews well in most chat tools without being cropped. Add a page at that size, check the wide layout still carries the name and the start date, and export that page as a PNG, since PNG covers the page you are on.
How do I make one for every new starter quickly?
Duplicate the page in the builder, change the name, the role and the dates, and leave the theme and template alone so the series stays recognisable. Duplicate works per page, so a year of starters can live as pages of one flyer, exported as a PDF when you want the set or as a PNG when you want just the newest one.
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