Why it’s Important to Onboard Employees
Why Onboarding Sets Up New Hires – & Your Organization – For Success
Onboarding is a continuation of your new hire’s foundational experiences with your organization. At this point, you are well past first impressions and are establishing the culture your employees experience within your organization.
Set your new hire up for success with a well-structured process that goes beyond the tours, introductions, and compliance paperwork. It’s well documented that strong onboarding can increase retention by up to 82%, which protects the valuable investment you made in your recruiting and hiring phases. Conversely, by not providing onboarding can lead to turnover rates as high as 80% when a new hire feels unsupported, undertrained, and disconnected from the organization and their team.
Onboarding serves two important purposes:
How you set your new hire up for their first 90 days is your new hire’s confirmation that they’ve made the right decision to join your organization. By investing in a comprehensive onboarding experience builds on their excitement, you can increase your new hire’s dedication and effort. Give them specific goals related to learning the job, about the organization, and your strategic goals during this time. Schedule regular check-ins to provide and ask for feedback, assess their comfort levels and learning progress, and identify any challenges to address.
Onboarding is your organization’s chance to make some important strides in your culture. Ask for your new hire’s input and feedback on their experiences to gain a fresh perspective, which you can leverage to improve your processes and innovate your approaches. New hires can give you important insights in real time about gaps in training, faulty processes, unused (or misused) tools and resources, or annoyances you and the rest of your team have learned to live with or work around. Their feedback can expose your blind spots and help you improve processes, culture, workflow, and work formats.
Are you new to onboarding? The Monday Lab is here to help you design a flexible and thorough onboarding process for your new hires. You can connect with us to schedule a free 45-minute consult, or do-it-yourself with our onboarding planner.
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