Your New Hire Accepted Your Offer and Showed Up … Now What?
Your new hire accepted your offer and showed up … now what? Not so fun facts: 20% of new hires leave in the first 45 days* and 4%** don’t even show up on the first day. Losing that much hard-won talent can feel like a personal defeat or a company failure … or worse, both! […]
The Surprising ROI of Axe Throwing with Your New Hires
The Surprising ROI of Axe Throwing with Your New Hires It might sound crazy, but have you ever thought about taking your new hires axe throwing with the team? Rest assured, it’s not that crazy. It’s actually a great way to help new employees squash new job jitters, assuming you go to a legitimate axe […]
10 Things NOT to Do With Your New Hire Before Day One
10 Things NOT to Do With Your New Hire Before Day One You’ve found the perfect candidate and they have accepted your offer. Think you’re off the hook until their first day? Not so fast! Concerned hubbies, wives, partners, family and friends can lead to cold feet, second thoughts, and employees not showing up on […]
Excellent Onboarding: Merger & Acquisition’s Secret Weapon
The thing about mergers & acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions are tricky. Cultural differences, expectations, and lack of alignment can swiftly derail integration – like an episode of the Brady Bunch where everything goes wrong and there’s no quick fix sitcom solution before the end of the thirty minutes. And then there’s the worst of it – […]
How to Provide an Excellent Mass Onboarding Experience
How to Provide an Excellent Mass Onboarding Experience Great onboarding has been proven to improve retention, accelerate time to productivity, and increase employee engagement, but the thought of providing the same level of attention and care during mass onboarding versus individual onboarding might sound daunting, impossible even. Especially with multiple locations, hundreds to thousands of […]
10 Easy Steps to Make New Employees Feel at Home
10 Easy Steps to Make New Employees Feel at Home Want to impress your new hires? Engage them from the moment they accept your offer with a seamless, structured onboarding process that makes them feel like part of the team before they even set foot in the office. Many people consider onboarding to be the […]
Increase New Hire Retention by Mobilizing their Social Circle
Increase New Hire Retention by Mobilizing their Social Circle Within the first 6 months, 90% of new hires decide to stay or leave. Many factors influence this decision but as an employer you can directly influence your new employee’s onboarding experience and help them develop strong social ties. Bonds with coworkers are powerful, from the […]
Top 5 Reasons Consulting Firms Need Modern Onboarding
Why onboarding is so important One of the challenges of consulting is handling onboarding with each new client, as every client requires something different. Information and paperwork, such as background checks, drug tests, NDA’s, and W-9’s are often needed. Data security and sensitivity, including HIPAA regulations, GDPR, insider trading, and other industry-specific data requirements are […]
Maternity Boarding: Engaging Moms-to-Be & New Moms
Maternity Boarding: Engaging Moms-to-Be and New Moms The joy of impending motherhood can easily be tempered by a daunting pile of HR paperwork. Trying to juggle getting life ready for the new bundle of joy, while figuring out disability pay, FMLA, system access, vacation time, and more is an unfortunate reality for many new parents. […]
Great Onboarding: Hacking Cognitive Science
Great Onboarding: Hacking Cognitive Science Have you ever seen a stick and jumped a mile thinking it was a snake? Or watched a funny video of a cat reacting to a cucumber? Ever wonder why that happened? Our brains take in information via two neural pathways – one goes directly to the thalamus and the […]
