How Frontline Skills Gaps Hurt Employee Onboarding
Better onboarding closes behavior gaps before they become performance problems. Frontline skills gaps and employee onboarding are more connected than many leaders realize. When employees struggle to perform, communicate, adapt, or work well with their team, the problem is not always a lack of talent. Often, the gap begins much earlier, when onboarding fails to […]
Onboard Versus Orientation Leads To Retention
Why the onboard difference spells success in the workplace. Many organizations fail to onboard new employees. They hire good people who are excited about coming to work. Then what? New employees step on toes, they are not sure how the culture works and they don’t know how to get ahead in the company. Do you […]
Successful Onboarding Practices Include Work Culture Understanding
Retaining candidates after hiring them is harder than it seems. When companies lose 25 percent of all new employees within the first year, it’s hard for a business attempting to grow. According to the Center for American Progress, expect to pay up to 213 percent of a failed executive’s salary while waiting to replace them […]
Trouble with Retention? Commit to Culture Onboarding
You’ve seen it time and again. Talented employees quit leaving you with trouble with retention. You spend large amounts of time crafting detailed job descriptions and posting them on all of the relevant boards. You call in several qualified candidates to interview for the position. You finally hire “the one.” The one that you believe […]
Onboarding Practices Create Brand Ambassadors
Your company’s image is one of the most important conditions for attracting and retaining top talent. Your current employees also play a key role in creating and enforcing that image. So how do strong onboarding practices build your brand and retain top talent? The current workplace climate for employees is similar to the consumer experience: […]
Failing Onboarding Practices Leave Employees Disengaged
A new study conducted by Kronos Incorporated found that current onboarding practices are stalling new-hire momentum. Current practices are also threatening to disengage enthusiastic employees during their first few weeks, says HR’s Big Challenge for 2018: Fix New Hire Onboarding. The result is failing onboarding practices that are leaving employees disengaged. The study, “New Hire […]
Improve the Hiring Process with the 6 TIGERS® Principles
Your organization’s hiring process is potentially the most important indicator of business success. According to research from Gallup, leaders who hire from the top 20 percent of the talent available experience a 20 percent increase in sales, a 10 percent increase in productivity and a 30 percent increase in profitability. Because hiring the right applicants […]
Team Building Activities To Improve Employee Onboarding
You have interviewed all the candidates and have hired the best person for the position. The new team member is now at work for the first day, ready to go. Now what? What team building activities can you deploy to improve employee onboarding? To get the most from all employees, leaders who invest in employee […]