In my experience, while onboarding and offboarding are reflections of one another and shed light on the importance of documenting tribal knowledge, most companies are still not talking enough about how to do offboarding. Offboarding is not quite the opposite or inverse of onboarding, but an excellent offboarding process can model a successful onboarding process. When onboarding a new employee, you want to ensure they know where to find the information they need to be successful, have a plan to go from “newbie” to “knowledgeable,” and know who to rely upon when they need help. When offboarding an employee, your goal is to document what they know so that others can be successful and absorb the newly-documented tribal knowledge. The offboarding mindset One way to think about offboarding: the individual who is writing the offboarding documentation is onboarding others with all their tribal knowledge. So the offboarding documentation is effectively the onboarding documentation for another employee. This can help you approach offboarding differently because offboarding is a mindset.