Employee Onboarding: 7 Need-to-Know Facts
Employee onboarding is not a luxury New hires go through comprehensive orientation and socialization during onboarding, and it’s reflected in their successful integration into the company. Developing and sustaining a simple and intuitive employee onboarding program is vital to not only the success of your team, but to the productivity and longevity of your employees […]
The 3 Most Overlooked Onboarding Process Steps
Steps to Improve Your Process Our friends in HR come to us asking us for quick fixes to onboarding processes all the time. Whether they’re using an onboarding platform from a third party, have created a home-grown system, rely on manual processes or have taken a hybrid approach, many who have started this type of process […]
How to Create a New Hire Process Flow Chart in 5 Steps
The Benefits of a New Hire Process Flow Chart How do you know whether you’ve covered all of the onboarding-related tasks you need to do with a recently hired employee? You can read guides, take lessons and buy onboarding platforms. But at some point, your process needs to be unique to your company. It’s up […]
The Offboarding Process: How to Optimize Your Efforts
How to Optimize Your Offboarding Process With all of the uncertainty, drastic business shifts and never-before-experienced scenarios which are a byproduct of COVID-19, it’s imperative to focus on people during times of change and uncertainty, now more than ever. Although they may not expect it, your employees deserve it. This especially rings true in the case of workforce reductions […]
Onboarding and Training are NOT the Same Thing
How to differentiate between onboarding and training The probationary period…introductory period…onboarding: whatever you decide to call it, it’s a crucial phase for your new hires to learn their new role. As a leader, you must reinforce the recruiting reputation – the employer brand – you’ve built. The onboarding process is the perfect time to do […]
Involuntary Offboarding Risks You Need to Know
The Involuntary Offboarding Risks You Need to Know Uncomfortable musings What could a disgruntled terminated employee do with access to your sensitive corporate information, building, and passwords to your social accounts? An unsettling thought, isn’t it? Especially considering, according to Intermedia, 89% of past employees retain access to sensitive corporate applications. Just imagine the damage. […]
What is Offboarding?
The definition of offboarding As HR professionals, we’re all seasoned in the implications and considerations around employee onboarding – the critical program that sets the tone for your employees’ relationship with your company. And today, in our ever-evolving virtual world, the demand for onboarding remotely has increased significantly. But what about offboarding? Typically, this manual […]
Deconstructing the myths of onboarding – Myth #5: Onboarding is just HR’s job
Great onboarding sets the stage for engaged, productive & happy employees. But who exactly is responsible for great onboarding? A misconception we often hear is that onboarding is solely the responsibility of HR and the hiring manager. While they are absolutely critical to onboarding, they are not the whole story. Employee onboarding isn’t just compliance, […]
Deconstructing the myths of onboarding – Myth #2: Mobile-first employee onboarding isn’t required
Deconstructing the myths of onboarding We’re big on employee onboarding – the engagement, the compliance, and most of all, the opportunity to wow new hires. Since we live and breathe onboarding technology every day, we thought we’d take a good look at the onboarding myths we regularly hear. Kind of like the ever-entertaining MythBusters show. […]
3 Can’t-Miss Employee Onboarding Trends for 2020
Engaging and retaining talent is one of the top goals our clients have shared with us As a well-structured employee onboarding program has been shown to make 69% of employees more likely to stay for three years, let’s look at the top onboarding trends of 2020: 1. Preboarding Competing job offers, counteroffers from current employers, nerves/anxiety, […]
