10 Benefits of an Effective Onboarding Plan

What characterizes a good onboarding plan? Which factors create an optimal onboarding plan? Is it the quality of training? The success rate? The retention rate? Whatever factors you deem relevant to its outcome, an effective onboarding plan has some pretty specific results. Take a look at the 10 benefits of an effective plan for your […]

Employee Onboarding Software: 4 Features to Look For

How to Choose Employee Onboarding Software What makes for a successful employee onboarding software? Is it a slick interface that makes everything look shiny, clean and simple? It will help people feel better about using it, but it’s not always the most important part. Is it that it’s saving you money? That’s great, but if […]

Onboarding and Training are NOT the Same Thing

How to differentiate between onboarding and training The probationary period…introductory period…onboarding: whatever you decide to call it, it’s a crucial phase for your new hires to learn their new role. As a leader, you must reinforce the recruiting reputation – the employer brand – you’ve built. The onboarding process is the perfect time to do […]

What is Offboarding?

The definition of offboarding As HR professionals, we’re all seasoned in the implications and considerations around employee onboarding – the critical program that sets the tone for your employees’ relationship with your company. And today, in our ever-evolving virtual world, the demand for onboarding remotely has increased significantly. But what about offboarding? Typically, this manual […]

Top 5 Employee Offboarding Tips for Employers

Employee offboarding tips: Empathy is key The pressure for organizations to maintain continuous “business as usual” operations during this pandemic is no small undertaking. Coupled with the reality that RIFs or layoffs may be inevitable, now is a difficult time for employers and employees. In the unfortunate event that you’re forced to offboard employees, it’s important to […]

Compassionate, compliant & remote offboarding during COVID-19

Unemployment hit an unbelievable 3.3 million last week and the peak of COVID-19 hasn’t even been reached in the US yet.  As businesses across the country cease operations, a common thread is the uncertainty around how to offboard employees compassionately, compliantly, and remotely. In normal times, the importance of offboarding is a given – well-offboarded employees can be a […]

How These 4 Companies Rule New Hire Onboarding

New Hire Onboarding Companies You see resources out the wazoo on how to recruit the best candidates and the latest performance management best practices, but there is too little discussed about the time in between. The irony is it’s during the new hire onboarding process that companies are most vulnerable to losing their newest employees. […]

A Remote Onboarding Platform During COVID-19

The need for a remote onboarding platform In the grip of a global pandemic, schools, businesses and organizations are shuttering their doors for weeks or longer. The unthinkable is rapidly becoming the eerie, unsettling norm. If there’s one thing this has brought to life or maybe two – if we consider people’s curious penchant for stockpiling […]

5 Rad Icebreakers to Excite Your New Hires

Onboarding icebreakers: Let the fun begin! So you’ve hired a slew of new employees. They’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and ready and willing to jump in and help the team. The only issue is they don’t really know the team.  How do you introduce these new-comers to your workforce? How do you ease their initiation into […]

Deconstructing the myths of onboarding – Myth #5: Onboarding is just HR’s job

Great onboarding sets the stage for engaged, productive & happy employees. But who exactly is responsible for great onboarding? A misconception we often hear is that onboarding is solely the responsibility of HR and the hiring manager. While they are absolutely critical to onboarding, they are not the whole story. Employee onboarding isn’t just compliance, […]