new hire onboarding should be more than just “Here’s your laptop; good luck!”
new hire onboarding is your chance to get it right.
Research shows that how well a new employee integrates into a company is determined in the first 90 days.
Translation? How well some performs a year from now, could be correlated to how they were onboarded on day one.
Having a solid new hire onboarding process is also crucial for saving time.
Training someone, getting them familiar with systems, making sure they know who to go to for question?
All of those are areas that, when managed well, save you time—and if they aren’t, they leave a bad impression on a new employee and create inefficiency that you have to clean up, later.
new hire onboarding help
NEW HIRE PROCESS ONE:
When we work with a client, one of the first things we want to handle with new hire onboarding is compliance.
Is it exciting? No—but it’s not optional to have correct W4s on file or have employees sign off on an employee handbook. It’s part of compliance to ensure that you don’t expose your business to legal liability.
NEW HIRE PROCESS TWO:
Think of the last time you had a tech hassle and ran into a customer service agent who told you to just restart your computer—as if that would fix everything.
Not only is that frustrating, it’s inefficient. It leaves a bad impression on a new hire when they realize that no one seems to know how to provision a new account, the laptop just got ordered twenty-four hours ago, and no one thought about where they would sit when they arrived.
New hire onboarding has to make sure that this part is seamless, so that your new employees feel welcome.
NEW HIRE PROCESS THREE:
Now we get to the fun part: culture. We’ve helped companies create new hire onboarding that not only introduces the person to the company, but that also integrates them into the company culture.
Anyone can come up with some “Company Values” and read them off during a new hire orientation. Not every company has operationalized those values, so that a new employee who is onboarding understands what the company values are, in practice. We’ll work with you to take that final critical step and not just talk the talk of company values—we’ll show you how to demonstrate them through behavior.