They say you only get one chance at a first impression and in the employee induction space, that first impression means a lot. The cost of getting it wrong A study by Brandon Hall Group suggests that organisations with strong onboarding processes improve their new hire retention rate by 82% and their
We – Human Resources and Learning and Development people – often use onboarding and induction as interchangeable terms. But are they really the same thing? In this article, we examine why your organisation may be better off treating employee onboarding as different from employee induction. Onboarding is tactical The process
A key part of employee induction is to provide new employees with a sense of ‘who is who’ within the organisation. This typically revolves around understanding the different teams in the organisation, their roles and responsibilities and how to contact them. In this article, we review several best practices to ensure your online learning provides the most efficient and effective delivery for team introductions in your employee induction programs.
Video is a highly desired medium for online learning. It can transform pages of text into movement, sound and action. It’s also very mobile device friendly. The use of video for induction training is powerful as video can share knowledge in ways which text – even interactive text – cannot. In this article, let’s review why video for induction training is such a powerful medium, before looking at a few tips to make video more accessible in your next induction courses.
If your organisation is considering starting to build an employee induction, one of the first hurdles to overcome is ‘Where do we begin?’. Starting an employee induction program can feel a little overwhelming. The key is to take an iterative approach – start small and enhance the program in stages
Building an employee induction program can feel like a daunting task. Where to begin? Where to end? How much training is enough during the first few days or weeks for a new employee? In this article, we breakdown employee induction programs into four components and review the most common training topics within each.