Onboarding: What's effective and is it worth the time and money?

As a leader, retaining staff and creating an engaging culture is critical to your organization’s success. Onboarding, the process of welcoming and integrating new employees into your organization, can be the differentiator in a competitive job market and beyond.

Onboarding Benefits

According to Gallup “onboarding fulfills promises made during recruitment and lays the foundation for the rest of the employee life cycle.” The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shares that employees who benefit from a strong onboarding process are 50% more productive as new hires and are more likely to still be with the organization after three years. Pretty impressive, right?

Retaining high-performing team members saves time, money and deepens the “feel good about my job/organization” culture of an organization.   Today’s episode briefly touches on some key ideas taken from T4G’s experience about the onboarding process that validates how leadership influences onboarding.

Top Ideas to Consider for Employee Success

• Onboarding is a process

• ”Pre-boarding” (before the first day) develop and share a packet with key info (listen in for our ideas)

• Create an agenda for the first week with key introductions and activities

• Model welcoming behavior for your team - YOU meet one-on-one with the new hire on the first day if possible.

• Together, define what success looks like

• Make it personal

• Involve the existing team in the process - assign a colleague “buddy”

• Have check-ins at 30 days, 60 days, 90 days

• Ensure opportunities for new employee feedback about the process

 The onboarding process is 100% worth the effort and investment of time and money.

Transcend4Good works with clients to create custom programs like onboarding that allow nonprofits and associations to grow and innovate.

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