You arrived at work and it became immediately obvious that there was no employee onboarding plan. The first impression is key to how new staff members acclimatise to their new role.
How can you become a leading rather than a lagging organisation when it comes to maximising the value of your new employees?There is nothing worse than starting a new job, to spend the first day filling out paperwork. Get this activity out of the way before a new employee even walks in the door.
The first day of employment should take the excitement of the original job offer and acceptance and push it to the next level. This means thinking about the details BEFORE the new employee arrives.
“Formal” doesn’t mean overly “stiff.” But it does mean orientation should start by conveying the organisation values and how the new employee fits into these.
The employee onboarding process is loaded with a set of repetitive processes that are not individually complex but are often overlooked. Like creating email accounts, getting phone numbers, gaining access to company social accounts, identifying key training resources and even configuring the physical workspace
“Orientation” should not be something that is done to a new employee but with the new employee.
The key to making an activity consistent is to have it clearly documented and to automate it as much as possible.
Make sure that confidential evaluations of the orientation process itself are done by new employees
HR is usually imagined as a paper-dominated place. Releasing both HR and new employees from the paper processes will give time to focus on what’s really important, setting clear objectives and expectations.
This should be transparent, simple, easy to complete and paperless.
HR processes, included onboarding, cannot be done in isolation.
Constant repetition in small chunks, is the key to a more agile and responsive processes. The real work begins once the initial automation is done.
All departments should be on same page concerning onboarding requirements.
There are two common elements on his 12 tips
Automated employee onboarding solutions allows your HR team to digitise nearly all of the necessary onboarding paperwork. Your staff no longer need to waste paper or copying and organising packets for your new hires.
As you think through the best way to automate all of the above make sure to consider that HR information and HR processes do not exist in isolation.
Which means that the digital documents and digital processes critical to HR onboarding need to connect and be integrated with the other core business processes of the organisation.
Original Text by John Mancini
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