how to make your employee onboarding program strategic and effective
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR EMPLOYEE
ONBOARDING PROGRAM
STRATEGIC AND EFFECTIVE
Five Strategies for Success
By Chronus Corporation
www.Chronus.com
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WHY IMPLEMENT STRATEGIC ONBOARDING?
But how do you get there? Click forward to learn
our five strategies for success:
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Strategy #1
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EXTEND THE LEARNING TIMEFRAME
• Extending your onboarding program over six
months or a year pays big benefits.
Learn more completely
Improve performance
Realize higher
retention rates
Fewer turnover
costs
Employee benefits
Organizationbenefits
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Strategy #2
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INCLUDE LEARNING THROUGH OTHERS
• Add a personalized, 1:1 approach in your
onboarding program.
• Provide a resource network to your new hires. Employees:
Learn faster, improving time to productivity
Connect to the organization, improving integration and retention
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Strategy #3
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GUIDE THE LEARNING
• With informal learning, structure = key to success.
• Create a guided workflow for the entire length of your
onboarding program. Benefits:
Learning is continuous
and productive
Can be specific to
job function
Replicate for a library of workflows!
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CHECKLIST! ELEMENTS OF A GUIDED
EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING PLAN
Create specific milestones and tasks
Provide on-demand resources
Build check-ins and assessments
Define the end point of the program
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Strategy #4
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MEASURE THE IMPACT
• Establish metrics at the beginning of your
program.
• Break them out into:
Program Level: Metrics
on achieving business
objectives.
Employee Level: Metrics
on the impact program
has had on them
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Strategy #5
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STANDARDIZE AND SCALE YOUR
PROGRAM FOR SUCCESS
• Standardizing your onboarding process for
repeatability translates to HUGE benefits
for your organization.
Consistent new
employee training
Adoption of company culture
Clear understanding of department
& org goals
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STANDARDIZE AND SCALE YOUR PROGRAM
FOR SUCCESS
• Only by scaling to your entire organization
will you truly realize the large-scale
benefits of a strategic onboarding
program!
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FINALLY, MAKE IT EASY WITH SOFTWARE
Consider software to:
Create dynamic onboarding plans
Integrate your existing formal training with informal learning
Track progress to ensure employees
stay on track
Provide guided workflows from
the beginning
Report business-impact
metrics to your leadership
Want to easily scale your
program
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NEXT STEPS
This SlideShare is a summary of our step-
by-step complete guide.
Make sure to visit us at www.chronus.com to see how
software can help you run easy and effective onboarding
programs.
Click here to access our complete guide: “How to Make Your Employee Onboarding
Program Strategic and Effective”