Definition
Fifteen role-specific onboarding checklists; 151 actions compressed into five time gates: Week 1/30/90/180/270; Common Minimum Set has four items, Quasi-Common has one (production frontline does not learn root cause), management roles have five additional; has gates, no criteria, no overdue consequences.
In detail
The DBS Immersion Program is a role-specific onboarding checklist that allocates 151 key actions across five time points: Week 1, Day 30, Day 90, Day 180, and Day 270, helping new employees encounter the core knowledge and skills their role needs in that order — but the checklist itself only sets time gates, with no built-in completion criteria or consequences for missing them. It addresses the sequencing question of "what to learn and when" for new hires. Unlike the Bootcamp System (which focuses on intensive training), the Immersion Program emphasizes on-the-job exposure and phased progression. Its output is a clear action checklist and timeline, helping new employees integrate systematically.
Example in practice
When a new production supervisor joins, HR and their manager use the immersion checklist to pace onboarding: Week 1 completes the DBS online introduction; within 30 days the supervisor reviews strategic deployment and KPI visual management and attends root-cause countermeasure training; within 90 days the supervisor attends one standard work / 5S improvement week. The checklist only marks time gates — who signs off, what counts as meeting the bar, and what happens if a gate is missed are three blanks the company needs to fill in itself.