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A slide will
never welcome
anyone.
A person will.

Onboarding is not a presentation. It's the first experience a new joiner has of your culture. Bonds beat bullet points. We turn day-one into a lived moment they remember five years in.

6 Ways we replace slides
30d App reinforcement
1st Week decides 5 years
Six ways we replace slides

From listening
& seeing
to doing.

Every one of these is proven with Mauritius enterprises. Mix and match into your onboarding journey.

01
Outdoor Values Immersion
Values come alive in the open — where teams bond in ways rooms cannot manufacture.
02
Experiential Room Activities
Every value turned into a lived moment. Simulations. Role-play. Real friction, safely.
03
Gamified Mobile Journeys
Slide content rebuilt as quests, quizzes and streaks. On their phone. Before day one.
04
Escape Rooms & Knowledge Quests
Collaborative game-based knowledge checks. Learn the values, together, by escaping something.
05
Team Challenges & Icebreakers
Peer connections are the retention lever. We design the moments that spark them.
06
Digital Reinforcement
App-based recall for one month post-Day-One. Nudges. Not spam.
Signature journey

Joining
Sparks.

A three-part gamified, mobile-first onboarding journey. Built for a global battery-design leader who launched a new entity in Mauritius. 150 participants. Zero slides.

PHASE 01 5 days · pre-Day-One

Gamified pre-engagement

Daily microlearning on the Joyflar app. New joiners meet each other before they meet the office. Anxiety about "will I fit?" dissolves before Monday.

📱 Mobile app 🎯 5 daily quests 💬 Peer chat
PHASE 02 Day 1 · 3 hours

Virtual escape room: "Finding Sofia"

A collaborative knowledge check disguised as a teamwork quest. Values, policies, org structure — all delivered as puzzle. Zero slides. Full retention.

🔓 Escape room 👥 Small teams 🏆 Live leaderboard
PHASE 03 30 days · post-Day-One

30-day reinforcement

Self-paced recall via downloadable booklet + app access. Nudges when it matters — not when it doesn't. Culture lands, doesn't fade.

📄 Booklet 🔔 Smart nudges 📊 Manager report
Day-one welcome moment
Day one

First impression.
Last five years.

A handwritten card. A personalised kit. A human welcoming them by name. These are the details that turn "new hire" into "believer" — and the ones we get right, every single time.

Case study · 2025

From 0 → 1
New entity.
One culture.

A global leader in battery design launched a new entity in Mauritius. 150 people from three heritage cultures had to become one — before their first shipment.

150 Participants engaged
5d Pre-engagement
30d App reinforcement
0→1 New entity, one culture
"For the first time, onboarding was talked about at the executive committee — not because it went wrong, but because it moved the culture."
H
Harel Mallac Group
People & Culture
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