5 Ways to Improve Your Employee Onboarding

11 December 2014

Employee onboarding

Be Goal Oriented

New employees who are introduced to a company with a well-structured onboarding program are 69% more likely to stay for 3 years or more.

Employee onboarding is about setting goals and having milestones along the way for them to achieve. Communicating exactly what goals are required of an employee allows them to focus on these and become productive more quickly. Taking the time to develop this framework for a given employment will reap rewards for your company.

Connect these employment goals to the broader company goals, ie, if company goal is to increase market share in EMEA then your employee’s goal is to increase sales calls to EMEA. This will allow the employee to see how their work is essential and contributes to their sense of value to the company.

5 Ways to Improve Your Employee Onboarding

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Simplify the Role

Simplify the onboarding process by writing smarter, better, and more action-based job descriptions. Detailed, goal oriented job adverts will help you to attract the right candidates from the beginning. This will mean that recruitment is more efficient and it will mean that those candidates arrive on day one knowing their role in the organisation and how they can contribute to the company goals.

Tell them what you want from them

It is amazing to think that 60% of companies say that they do not set any official milestones for new hires to achieve. So, is it surprising to find that most new employees take a whole year to start working at their full potential?

With simple benchmarks in place new hires will know what they have to achieve and employers will be able to easily assess performance.

Make your company a teaching company

25% of companies admit that they do not have any form of training as part of their employee onboarding. This is on the back of spending on average $11,000 to bring in a new hire. What is onboarding if not training?

If employees think that they are a valued member of the team and that they will learn with you they are much more likely to stay with you. A 10-15% churn rate of employees annually means that you can lose up to 60% of your human capital within four years! So, your company needs to train employees and offer mentorship, education, and the chance for professional development. Employees want to learn and grow on the job, and organizations that offer this possibility will engender loyalty and retention.

Go Online

A recent survey indicated 67% of companies that are conducting onboarding training are using technology. However, these companies are only using tech for a fraction of the onboarding and they may be missing out on efficiencies that can accrue from online training.

From task flow software that keep goals in view to online training software, new technology is leading the way. If you want to set your company out as one that is looking to the future and training new hires in a streamlined way then embracing this technology might avoid you being stuck in the past.

In today’s ever-changing landscape, you can’t afford to wait a whole year for your best new people to get up to speed. By using these five tips, you can supercharge your onboarding process, get new employees focused on goals, and move your company forward.

HR is a fast changing environment and waiting for 12 months to get a new employee up to speed and productive is simply no longer an option.  By using these five tips you can improve your employee onboarding immeasurably. We are here to help you to achieve these goals and we have a wealth of experience working with companies to train their staff online. For more information Watch our 60 seconds Video or Take a Free Demo Today.

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Sonya Sikra

Sonya is the Brand Strategy Manager at GoContractor. She specializes in communicating how implementing tech in construction can drive productivity and profit.

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