What makes a good start in a new team? And how can a farewell also show appreciation? These were the questions explored on September 16, 2026, at Demografie Netzwerk Saar’s workshop “Erfolgreiches Onboarding und Offboarding in KMU – praxisnah, strukturiert und umsetzbar” on practical approaches to onboarding and offboarding in SMEs. Our colleague Luzie Seeliger led the workshop together with Ricarda Jarolimeck, sharing her experience of employee experience management at Centigrade.
Insights into our day-to-day work
At Centigrade, Luzie supports the onboarding of new colleagues, looks after our guidance programme and is a point of contact for questions and challenges within the team. At the workshop at saaris – Saarland Innovation und Standort GmbH in Saarbrücken, she showed how we make onboarding and offboarding personal: through small ideas that help people settle in and convey appreciation when they leave the company.
The focus was on everyday experience: which processes have proved useful? Where are the challenges? And what works in practice – or does not?
From practical examples to individual actions
After these insights, the participants got to work themselves. Through a range of exercises, they developed concrete measures for their own companies and then presented their ideas to the group. The discussion highlighted how different the circumstances in small and medium-sized companies can be. A solution that suits one team cannot automatically be applied to the next.
Not a one-size-fits-all solution, but suitable next steps
The focus was therefore not on finding the perfect checklist for everyone, but on identifying ideas that could actually be put into practice in each company. Luzie also took away fresh inspiration from the conversations. Thank you to Demografie Netzwerk Saar, Ricarda Jarolimeck and all the participants for the open and practical exchange!
Read more on LinkedIn (in German): Luzie’s recap with the DNS workshop report