
Onboarding Quest
Our Onboarding Quest activates employee curiosity, getting them up to speed quickly and shortening their time to value.
How It Works
Our Onboarding Quest is a chat-based, coaching-style experience that sparks meaningful conversations, powerful insights, and 'a-ha!' moments – driving the rapid, lasting adoption of new behaviors across your organization. We do this using four powerful behavior drivers: action, follow-through, reflection, and social engagement.

Activity
Completions indicate that participants have awareness and understanding of a topic.

Follow-Through
Positive activation checks show that participants have followed through and taken specific actions.
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Reflection
Participants' insights demonstrate that they've reflected on their experiences in a way that reinforces the desired mindsets.

Social Engagement
'Likes' and comments show that a user’s insights are resonating with others and sparking social learning within the group.
The Challenges
Successful employee onboarding is crucial to employee and business success. According to research by Glassdoor, successful onboarding can improve employee retention by 82%. Research by the SHRM Foundation indicates that effective onboarding can increase performance by up to 11%.
Our Onboarding Quest activates employees' curiosity, getting them up to speed quickly and shortening their time to value. Through ten easy challenges, participants are encouraged to take meaningful actions and be inquisitive about their new role, colleagues, and company.
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CHALLENGES |
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Ask Questions |
Max out your curiosity quotient with today's challenge! |
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Be Helpful and Indispensable |
Learn the power of "What do you expect from me?" in today's challenge. |
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Find Out How Your Manager Is Measured |
Managing your manager is key to being successful in any job. Find out how they are measured. |
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Share Your 'Why' |
It's way more powerful to share your 'why' rather than your 'what'. Find out more in today's challenge. |
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Memorize Your Org Chart |
With all the new faces around you, it's not easy getting a good sense of who you need to partner with. Find out more in today's challenge! |
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Prepare Your Pitch |
What makes the perfect pitch? Find out now! |
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Learn About Our Customers |
All employees share one ultimate goal. Find out what it is in today's challenge. |
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Learn About Our Culture |
How do you know if a job is really a long-term fit for you? Find out now. |
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Learn Everything About Us |
The first month on the job is an ideal time to learn everything you can about your company. |
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Understand Your Performance Metrics |
How will you be measured? It's important to know the metrics that matter. |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Our programs are designed to help people adopt new behaviors and habits through practice and repetition.
Each 10-day quest delivers a bite-sized daily challenge. Participants complete an offline activity, then return to reflect on their experience. This simple cycle – act, then reflect – drives meaningful behavior change in a short time.
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Designated administrators can track progress using Manage, our reporting dashboard.
The Manage tool provides helpful insights into participant activity. Every time someone uses a coaching guide ('cog'), the system logs their actions – allowing administrators to view each participant’s journey, track cog completion, and identify where teams may be struggling.
Admins can also monitor overall progress and export CSV files containing completion data and participant insights.
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Yes. We have a variety of programs available, tailored to help you activate behavior change when it matters.
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Yes. Cognician takes data privacy seriously. We follow a robust privacy model that builds on strong security protections and applies safeguards across people, processes, and technology.
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Yes. Cognician is trusted by global consultancies and their clients thanks to our commitment to privacy and security by design.
We take a threat-based, risk management approach to continuously improve how we prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats – treating cybersecurity as a core part of our overall risk management strategy. -
Yes. We offer 24-hour support. You can email support@cognician.com with any questions, or select/tap the Chat icon at the bottom right of the screen while on the platform to get help from our Support team.