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6 ways to improve outdated onboarding program.
1. Take a proactive approach (plan the first day)
2. offer a proper orientation (prior to onboarding;
tour the facility, intro company tech; overview
mission & goals; company org chart; expectations &
culture) Use screen-sharing software
3. make onboarding interactive (engaging trng
content; quizzes, videos, webinars - gamification)
,4. personalize the training process (new hires
strengths, challenges, & preferences; meet
employees unique needs)
5. make it a social experience (team meeting day
one; team building events; encourage collaboration)
6. solicit and learn from feedback (survey new
employees regarding the onboarding process
strength & weaknesses)
10 Onboarding Best Practices
1. Align the messaging (determine your onboarding
goals; Ensure your messaging is consistent)
2. Plan the first day (meaningful; understand roles &
responsibilities; answer questions; positive first day)
3. Ensure a meeting with manager the first week
(creates a sense of belonging; participated in higher-
quality meetings and spent more time collaborating
with their teams than those who did not have the
manager meeting within the first week)
,4. support the person's authentic strengths (new
hires get more satisfaction and meaning from their
work)
5. Use gamification to engage employees (approach
was well-received and had a positive impact on
customer satisfaction)
6. focus on social relationships (onboarding should
be fun and participative rather than boring and top-
down)
7. Provide mentors to new hires (help ease new hires
into their role and work culture; more invested in
the values of the organization than those without a
mentor)
8. or provide buddies (assigning a fellow worker as a
'buddy' to help the newcomer integrate into the
workplace and 2) encouraging a new hire to observe
a fellow associate for a period of time)
9. use diverse and blended formal practices (offering
more approaches to facilitate socialization rather
than fewer, should be a primary goal of onboarding
programs. In addition, new employees perceived the
, range of practices as at least moderately beneficial
to their onboarding experience)
10. gather feedback (online surveys and facilitate
discussions with participants about ways to improve
the onboarding program)
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Providing a checklist, Facilitate communication,
Reinforce existing culture and sense of purpose,
Provide feedback channels
Onboarding vs. Orientation vs training
Onboarding: Process organizations use to socialize
and acclimate a new employee into the culture and
work life of an organization -helps an organization
discover and make use of the unique strengths of
each new employee (Bigger picture/scope)
Orientation: part of onboarding, Onboarding is a
lengthy process that includes all of the practices,
programs and policies that help integrate incoming
employees into a new organization. It is a more