It’s all too easy for a new employee induction process to be inconsistent or haphazard. This is especially true if induction doesn’t start until the new employee arrives on day one. In this article, we gather several new employee induction checklists to help you avoid inconsistency and ensure your new employees hit the ground running.
The faster new employees integrate into a team, the better their induction process goes. In particular, improved teamwork helps the new employee pick up best practices and tips from other employees. It accelerates their employee induction process. So let’s consider four practical tips to specifically build employee induction teamwork.
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
Why getting employee induction right matters Getting employee induction right matters, as they say that first impressions count. It’s certainly true for employees on their first days and weeks in a new job. From experience, employee inductions tend to fall into one of two categories There are solid stats to
We have seen at lot of induction processes at Tribal Habits and we can confidently say all great programs share five employee induction best practices.
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.
Starting a new job is one of the most challenging few experiences in life. It is an equal mixture of excitement and uncertainty for employers too. By taking your induction process into a digital, online environment, the time required to get new employees to ‘100% productive’ can be shortened. Plus, online induction training can also help existing employees become more consistent and standardised.
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.
New employee induction can be time-consuming. Many organisations struggle to provide consistent employee induction programs. Some employees receive a great experience, while other employees receive no or limited induction assistance. The information provided in employee inductions can be inconsistent. Staff involved in employee induction can become resentful as they struggle to manage their own tasks, let alone inducting new staff. So let’s consider five practical ways to improve employee induction efficiency for any organisation.
