Employee retention is improved by 82% with great onboarding practices ...

Employee retention is improved by 82% with great onboarding practices but remarkably 88% of businesses don’t do it well if they do it at all.  Creating a great experience isn’t hard and here are some top tips for this 3-stage process of pre-boarding, active onboarding, and post-onboarding.

An amazing 70% of new hires who experience a great onboarding experience say they are in the best job possible so let’s dive right in so you can acclimate your new hires to your business because you never get a second chance to make a first impression. 

There are 5 key top tips for pre-boarding
1. Communicate the start day and time to the new hire remembering the Employment Contract needs to be signed prior to their start. 
2. Prepare procedure and policy documents. 
3. Prepare their workspace and provide all tools they will need. 
4. Communicate their arrival with their co-workers so they can prepare.
5. Prepare the active onboarding process.

5 top tips for your active onboarding phase
1. Have frontline staff and co-workers ready to welcome new hires remembering everyone should be welcomed in the same manner whether they be the new receptionist or general manager. 
2. Prioritise taking new hires through their Job Descriptions, Key Performance Indicators, Channels of Reporting, and Company Policies. 
3. Prioritise introducing them to co-workers. 
4. Change can be stressful can and compromise immune systems so anticipate and be compassionate about the need for sick days early in the new hires term with you. 
5. Be extraordinarily available to them and buddy them with a co-worker for at least the first 4 weeks of their term.

Your final top tip is for post-onboarding - conduct a 3-month Performance Appraisal which includes soliciting feedback. I hope moving forward you will not underestimate the importance and power of a positive onboarding experience and we can help you with our amazing bespoke service opportunities and training programmes that will elevate your employee engagement, improve productivity, increase profitability, grow your market share, and bolster your business resilience and we can help you access government funding for our services, so I invite you to reach out to us today.