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5 Effective Onboarding Strategies

5 Effective Onboarding Strategies

Studies suggest that people usually leave jobs within the first 12 months. It indicates more than just a lack of job satisfaction. There seems to be a deeper malady and it starts with onboarding. Companies often fail to welcome new employees and integrate them with the company’s work culture, technology, roles, and process. This begets a sense of dissatisfaction and aloofness in the employee, which blows out in the first few months. So, you need to devise effective onboarding strategies to welcome new employees so that they stay on. To stay on, they need to model themselves in line with the company and job requirements.

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New employees are mostly jittery about their new jobs. They are apprehensive about a lot of stuff that matters. They may also feel overwhelmed with all the tasks at hand. Indeed, they have a lot of tasks at hand after joining a new organization. They are supposed to go through the HR handbooks, get acquainted with the work culture, go through orientation classes et al. Such overwhelming tasks coupled with apprehensions about meeting the expectations of superiors and staff can make people jittery. An edgy employee cannot perform a task confidently. You need to make him feel at ease to enable him to perform well.

Here are 5 effective onboarding strategies that you can implement.

Handhold Candidates to Introduce Them to Work Culture

New candidates are usually unfamiliar with the work culture of a novel company. Effective onboarding strategies should be geared towards introducing new employees to the nuances of work culture. Superiors need to handhold new employees and introduce them to the work flow, processes, people, and positions involved etc. There are many rules that are based on principles and policies and are not found in handbooks. You need to discuss these rules and also how to implement them in a particular setting. This will hasten the onboarding process.

Mentoring New Candidates

Mentoring can lead to smooth induction of new candidates in teams. If a new candidate has been recruited to fill in a particular position within a team that has been moving at a steady pace, you need to mentor the new employee to suit the vacancy snugly. This will ensure integration of the person to the work, work culture and the processes. So, mentorship must include hand holding employees for both soft and hard skills.

Follow-Up 

You need to monitor and follow up employees to see if they have been successfully on-boarded. To ensure that the new employee is steadily integrating with the work culture, you need to see that he is assimilating the education and support that he needs. This you can do with a bit of follow-up.

Modulated Training Programs

There are organizations that send new recruits into modulated training programs to gear them up to the company and work culture and the processes involved.

Set Clear Objectives, Assess and Develop 

Successful onboarding can add to your bench strength. To do that you need to set clear objectives for the new employees and also provide them with the right tools. You also need to be honest about their performance and offer regular feedback so that they can continue to develop.

It is very important for an employer to create some effective onboarding strategies for a healthy and productive environment. Above are some onboarding strategies for employers to hire and welcome new employees.

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