The best way to onboard construction workers

According to U.S. statistics, 25% of the construction workforce will be at retirement age by 2020, and the shortage of skilled construction workers is expected to continue. As employees are the backbone of any construction company, retaining high quality workers within this industry is vital. Great onboarding is one of the best ways to increase construction […]

Elevate Your Onboarding By Leveraging Psychology

Elevate Your Onboarding By Leveraging Psychology World-renowned author and life coach Tony Robbins teaches about the importance of the six human needs and how they drive us. He shares how certainty, uncertainty/variety, significance, connection/love, growth, and contribution fuel our motivation and influence how we interact with the world. Our needs for each of the six […]

Your new hire is 60 days in. Think you’re off the hook? Not a chance!

Your new hire is 60 days in. Think you’re off the hook? Not a chance! New employees experience a similar path to dating– where an initial meeting is fraught with nerves, the first few months are filled with uncertainty and best behavior, and then the relationship evolves into a steady hum of comfort and certainty.   […]

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 […]

How to Keep Your Company Values Aligned During Mass Hiring

How to Keep Your Company Values Aligned During Mass Hiring From seasonal needs to surges in company growth, the reasons for mass hiring vary but the need to provide efficient onboarding to accelerate productivity, ensure compliance, and educate new employees about the company culture and values remains constant. How is your team handling the strain […]

Don’t Make Good Employees Turn Bad with Poor Onboarding

Poor Onboarding Onboarding is the first real glimpse into an organization – after the polished interviewing experience. It gives new employees a sense of the company culture, expectations, and norms. Your new hires are looking at everything with a keen eye, trying to understand the organization and assimilate as quickly as possible. What do you […]

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 […]

Great Onboarding: Global Reach. Local Feel.

Great Onboarding: Global Reach. Local Feel. Organizations with large, distributed footprints need local solutions – especially for onboarding, the bedrock that marks the transition from candidate to employee, a critical time of employee engagement. Onboarding done well strengthens an employee’s confidence in their decision to join the company. Onboarding done poorly often leads to employees […]

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 […]

Your Secret Weapon in the War for Talent: Onboarding

High-stakes Hiring There’s a moment of truth in the recruiting process. An exact moment when you literally start realizing or losing the investment you’ve made in finding and acquiring a great hire. As soon as your offer is accepted, you shift into onboarding. Not the first day of employment: the moment your offer is accepted. […]