kevinmckeown8 - the list we've included in the NEO site template is for displaying all of the onboarding activities a new employee should complete to onboard and get to productivity. From our research speaking with multiple organizations this is a pretty common use case for new employee onboarding. Many organizations today provide all new employees with an onboarding checklist in Word or Excel.
There is also now an onboarding checklist template that's been included in Microsoft Lists that can be used to assign the checklist to individual employees (personalized as required by the manager) so they can track and report their completion of the various onboarding activities.
I'm not sure I fully understand the use case you are describing. Can you please elaborate? What outcome are your trying to accomplish?
One thing I learned about new employee onboarding in my research is that there are multiple use cases, so yours could be another one that Microsoft Lists can possibly solve.