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Prepared for Nella A. | Delivered September 13, 2019
New Employee Induction Program
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Goals
To identify innovative employee induction programs that include why, what do to, and how to complete such a program for the purposes of creating a manager's guide and new employee induction program.
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Early Findings
Preliminary research indicates there is plenty of information available on best practices for setting up an innovative employee induction program.
The number one reason to create a formal employee induction program is to reduce employee turnover.
According to Process.st, onboarding can increase employee retention by as much as 25%. Moreover, 15% of employees who have quit cited a lack of an effective onboarding program as a reason why they left.
Additionally, of people who quit their jobs within six months,
16.62%
quit in the first week,
17.60%
quit in the first month,
16.94%
quit in the first two months, and
17.60%
quit in the first three months. If an employee can make it through the third month, the odds of them quitting
go down significantly
.
A
new hire checklist
should include the following components:
Provide the new hire with a copy of the
employee handbook
.
Conduct a
general orientation
.
Review
key policies
on aspects such as vacation/sick leave, overtime, performance reviews, holidays, dress code, email/computer use, and other critical policies that employees have to know.
Review
general administrative procedure
s such as telephone use, building access, mail, business cards, purchase requests, and other necessary administrative tasks.
Give a
tour of the facilities
and introduce the employee to key individuals. The tour should include restrooms, mail rooms, copy machines, kitchen, and other important areas of the office or facility.
In terms of
position-specific procedures
, introduce the employee to all team members, review job assignments and training plans, the job description, performance expectations, standards, the schedule, hours, payroll timing, and time cards.
Ensure the employee
gains access
to computers, email, data on shared drives, databases, and the Internet.
Employee
induction best practices
include the following:
Understand it can take up to
eight months
for an employee to become fully comfortable with a position, so it is important to have a plan for the first day, the first week, and even the first few months.
Seek feedback on the employee induction process to understand how "
easy (or not)
it was for them to get up and running will tell you a lot about how to improve your overall induction process."
Remote employees
require different onboarding components such as video chats and phone calls.
Be sure to
clearly define all positions
and ensure entire teams are aligned. This will also be the time to set expectations and explain any changes to the whole team.
Set expectations for
employee communication
from the start. This is critical because everyone
communicates differently
and new hires need to understand how and when they are expected to communicate with various team members.
Process.st offers onboarding checklists for
various roles
.
SHRM has put together a
New Employee Onboarding Guide
that walks HR employees through the onboarding process.
The
guide provides best practices
for the first day, the first few months, and the first year.
Some
innovative employee induction programs
are integrating virtual reality, an induction portal with gamification features, videos, character-driven training stories, and hypothetical scenarios.
Best in class examples
of employee induction programs are the induction programs for Netflix, Quora, Digital Ocean, Twitter, Buffer, LinkedIn, Zappos, Facebook, Google, and Pinterest.
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