There is something fundamentally wrong with the way most companies do onboarding! How do we know? We read the latest reports, and the numbers weren’t pretty. According to Cezanne HR: 🚩 Nearly two-thirds of employees found their onboarding experience to be stressful! 🚩 Only half of all new hires said
If somebody tells you that a branded pen, notebook or t-shirt is a creative way to win over new employees, it’s about time you stopped listening to them! That new employee might be a digital notetaker anyway, and in that case, all you’ve done is contribute to a cluttered desk
If we’re in agreement that the primary goal of onboarding is to get someone settled and productive in their new role, then we might need to redefine what an onboarding challenge is. Loads of paperwork, poor welcome emails, not building a great experience, managing change – these are the sorts
If somebody tells you that a branded pen, notebook or t-shirt is a creative way to win over new employees, it’s about time you stopped listening to them! That new employee might be a digital notetaker anyway, and in that case, all you’ve done is contribute to a cluttered desk
Even if you have the best onboarding experience in the world, there’s still that early doubt about whether you’ve made the right decision or if this is the role for you. Now imagine you’ve had a mediocre, bland or downright awful experience! Those doubts are exacerbated by those early woes,
Think that the hard work is done once a new hire signs on the bottom line? Think again. The next challenge (or should we say opportunity?) lies in keeping their energy and enthusiasm up as they settle into the team. And to do that, you’re going to need a
Your company’s growing, new people are joining the team at rapid speed, and it’s pretty useful if those first few months are happy and productive for each new face that walks through the door. We want them smiling and sticking around, not fleeing and frowning before the first month’s
Virtual onboarding should never feel like a watered-down version of what’s on offer to employees joining the company ‘in-person’. When the pandemic hit, most of us went into survival mode and were really learning on the job in learning how to onboard virtually. It was probably a case of
Working from home isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. For every person that’s ramping up the productivity levels without distractions, there’s someone struggling without working face-to-face. Don’t get us wrong, everybody loves snoozing their alarm an extra time instead of dashing for a packed train, and having more freedom around
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think a spreadsheet or series of calendar invites was a pretty well-structured onboarding process. You meet people, you get to know a bit more about the company for a couple of weeks, but when do you learn the things that help you
A lot of onboarding checklists feel longer than the process itself, breaking down each day and week into great detail. The thing is, you’ve got people to onboard and that makes your time precious, so you don’t need us dragging this out with onboarding definitions, benefits and all that
Building your dream HR tech stack is a lot like online dating; you’ll find people with a few of the traits you’re looking for, you probably won’t find anyone that ticks every box, and there will be a few people that catch your eye because they’re passionate about one thing
