When it comes to making your onboarding program strategic and effective to meet your hr goals, you might have already added collaborative learning and extended the program time frame. Great job – you’re on your way to an improved program. But what should your next steps be?
Here’s the thing – manually running your onboarding program can only do so much. Implementing strategic onboarding across the organization is difficult and time consuming to manage. But here’s a snapshot of what you can achieve with software:
- Increased efficiency
- Improved engagement and participation
- Strategic workflows for consistent training
- Ability to assess program performance at any stage
Interested? Read on to learn more about how software can help you manage the learning process, follow onboarding best practices, and make your hr onboarding goals great rather than just good.
How Onboarding Software Helps You Meet Your HR Goals
Increased efficiency. Simply put, software saves time and cost. Use it to track and deliver paperwork, and to create a pre-boarding template that reminds managers to handle small tasks before the new hire arrives.
Software also extends the learning process beyond orientation by helping you set up and manage relationships between advisers and new hires. This encourages managers to stay on top of the onboarding process and motivates new hires to achieve more when they know that others can observe their process.
A robust software program should also make it simple to offer other services that are popular elements of onboarding programs, such as a mentoring or buddy system for new hires, or coaching for more high-stakes, executive onboarding.
Improved engagement and participation. Present your new hires with a fantastic first impression of your company by using software to design a personalized learning plan. Personalized learning plans:
- Are tailored to an individual’s learning needs by job function
- Can be quickly created from templates in onboarding software
- Engage and guide new hires and advisers with checklists of tasks and milestones
- Can include welcome materials and even your employee handbook
- Make employees feel welcomed by the obvious care and thought
Because software allows new hires access to their onboarding plan regardless of location, you can prep new hires before they’ve started. Encourage participants to fill out their user profiles too, so new hires can virtually “meet” their advisors and other members of the team before seeing them in person.
If you’ve decided to set up a buddy system or you’re looking to match the right advisers with new hires, software also helps you drive greater engagement through “smart” person-to-person matching. Filter according to competencies, departments, or use the matching functionality to connect new hires to the right person in each department to ask questions.
Strategic workflows for consistent training. The ability to customize workflows for different employees is one of the greatest advantages of onboarding software. For example, your company might decide to create different workflows for salespeople who will be selling different products – but those unfamiliar with the product should receive the same workflows even if they’re in different locations. With onboarding software, you can easily customize, improve, and track individualized onboarding programs.
Program performance assessment capability at any stage
With a spreadsheet-run program, it’s difficult to assess the program’s strengths, weaknesses, and progress before the onboarding process ends. But software helps you avoid program pitfalls by providing at-a-glance views of how new hires are performing with built-in metrics throughout the onboarding process. Whether your new hires are diving deep into how your company’s products function or learning more about the culture, you can see how they’re moving through the process and ensure they’re getting up to speed quickly.
At-a-glance views of program performance
Test productivity with your software. Adjust your workflows and test different segments so you can establish what’s working and what needs to be changed. Software should make it easy to pull reports and share achievements with company leadership, which is an important part of maintaining program success.
Conclusion
In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, it’s difficult to achieve stellar results while manually running an extended, on-the-job onboarding program. Rely on software to take your program to the next level for engaged new hires who learn faster and stay longer. With your new program, you’ll also see improved efficiency, measurable results, more productivity, and as an end result, company growth.
About Chronus
Chronus software for onboarding enables you to extend new hire training beyond the classroom to accelerate learning and improve employee engagement. With the Chronus cloud-based onboarding solution, you can connect new hires to experts, content, and resources in a blended learning program that ensures new hires thrive as you monitor their progress toward full productivity.
