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Onboarding is typically designed from the perspective of the new hire, but how often is a seasoned team brought up to speed about “know-how” the new person brings and what they need to learn? When a new person joins a team, the team needs to know how to tap the newcomer’s talents and not get bogged down in the team-forming stage again. Collaboration accelerates assimilation of new talent in the onboarding process. more »
Creating a new hire experience that reinforces your brand, engages talent with resources they need to be productive in their new role, and provides a view to their possible future across the enterprise is a tall order. It’s a perfect opportunity for HR to collaborate with multiple hiring units who need productive and engaged talent. That means tackling organizational infrastructure and sorting through centralized and decentralized processes. Working in partnership with each hiring unit to identify what new hires need to know and joining forces to develo more »
The days of the traditional orientation in a room with other new hires is a fading practice. Especially when most of your talent is virtual, or when talent returns from leave or retirement, onboarding must be virtual, engaging and connect people to critical information and resources they need. How do organizations seamlessly integrate, onboard and engage contract talent, a virtual workforce such as stay at home mom's, and re-board talent returning to the company? more »
When you align talent management initiatives the impact can multiply. That is what John Deere discovered when it implemented onboarding process and strategy for the newly hired, promoted, and identified salaried leaders. Their comprehensive onboarding improved leadership effectiveness, talent engagement, and confirmed recruiting requirements to build a stellar workforce. Find out how they created a high-touch onboarding experience across the board, and enabled and inspired managers to stay on top of onboarding follow-through for their newly promoted and salaried talent using technology. more »
Whether your customers or your talent has a good experience that evokes a feeling of connectedness, it's rarely by accident. Onboarding processes that are carefully designed for ease of execution can also engage your talent before "Day One." Engagement leads to productivity and retention of critical talent. All this relies on onboarding and assimilation processes that are embraced and brought to life by stakeholders and supporting technology. more »
When new and re-deployed leaders are asked to ramp up within 30 days, and their engagement, productivity and retention is on the line, effective onboarding delivers. Whether a leader is hired or re-deployed internally, a new leader has a huge impact on talent. Organizations focus on supporting executive effectiveness beginning with customized onboarding. more »
Beyond orientation- integrating on-boarding through the entire talent experience aligns the individual's role and goals with organizational goals. Often seen as a process to assimilate new hires, on-boarding can be used as a tool for knowledge transfer, engagement, retention, and development. When onboarding is owned by multiple stakeholders, the outcome is engaged talent, aligned goals, and optimal talent and organizational performance. In this webcast you will learn how on-boarding can be integrated with employment branding, recruiting, development and performance management. more »
Most onboarding is designed for those coming into an organization from the outside. Joining a new department/business unit or taking on a new leadership role presents many of the same challenges as joining a new organization/company. Increasingly, companies are adopting a similar strategy to set the stage for success of their internal talent advancing from within. Yet, there are some important differences. more »
Learn how Sun Microsystems is leveraging technology in their on-boarding process to aid enculturation and assimilation of new and prospective employees using a video game. Find out how this highly collaborative game engages and informs candidates and new hires about corporate culture, organizational structure and workflow to accelerate the timeline and effectiveness of the on-boarding process. In this webcast you will also learn how the game reflects, supplements and fits into a perpetual framework that delivers what an employee needs to know at that specific point they need to know it. more »
As organizations place greater importance on retaining, engaging, motivating and developing talent, formal onboarding strategies and processes from pre- through post-hire are becoming a competitive necessity. While 86% of organizations agree that employees decide to stay within the first six months of signing on, 61% either don't offer a formal onboarding program or end their onboarding program within one month (Aberdeen 2008). more »