Onboarding New Employees: Increase Retention and Performance

Did you know that your business could be throwing away at least $4,000 with each new hire if you have a poor onboarding process in place? On the other hand, when done right, an effective onboarding process can increase employee retention by 25%, improve employee performance by 11%, and, most surprisingly, can help keep more than 69% of employees with your company for 3 years or more!

In this course, we’re going to talk about how you can optimize your onboarding process in order to make sure that your new employees are excited, feel comfortable, and are both productive and efficient from day one. We’ll cover:

• Why onboarding is such an important function within your business
• Creating an onboarding checklist to organize and track progress during the onboarding process
• Onboarding lessons you can apply from different industries
• How to prepare your team for a new team member
• Day one with your new hire and what to do if they’re a remote worker
• Pairing your new hire with a mentor and other unique onboarding tactics
• How to properly evaluate your onboarding process for adjustments and improvements
• Beyond onboarding: How to support your new hire when they’re no longer “new”

By the end of this course, you’ll have everything you need to set up an onboarding process that effectively orients new hires and allows them to be productive and efficient as soon as they start.

Intended audience: HR professionals