Congratulations! You have just made a new hire. Now, it is the time to initiate the onboarding process. No matter how much of a professional hire you have made or how much cutting-edge your organization, the onboarding process works as the defining moment for your new hire as well as for the whole organization. You do not want a new employee to get intimidated by all the new people and workplace culture. An effective onboarding process will help you in evaluating whether your new employee will last for a week or if it is there to last for years to come. Here is a must-do’s to conduct a successful onboarding process which will help in adjusting your new employee to your organization:
Dispatch formal greetings:
The last thing any new employee wants is to feel unwelcome at a workplace. Professional behavior of your previous employees’ along with how well you treat the new hire greatly affects the determination of new employees. Start with sending welcome letters and emails. Remember to keep the greeting personal to some extent in order to initiate a comfortable start.
Introduce your organization:
Once your new employee has stepped into your workplace, you will need to define your business goals and vision to him. Make sure that you introduce him to his new team, your organization’s HR department and other related professionals. Guiding new employees for the completion and submission of onboarding paperwork is also useful in enhancing the effectiveness of the process. Assigning an experienced, former employee of your organization to guide the new hire is another effective thing you can to do to make sure that the new employee is well taken care of during your absence. Doing so will also help the new employees in sharing troubles which they can not ask from higher authorities.
Explain the nitty-gritty of your workplace:
Once you introduced the new hire to your existing employees, the next thing to do s explain the culture and ways of your workplace. Take the new hire and show him how, where and when the reporting of work is done. You should also guide him regarding the parking spaces, his personal workstation, and even the office dress code. Doing so will eliminate much confusion and discomfort from the onboarding process.
Explain the job description:
Your new hire is probably baffled by the new environment. This bafflement can easily throw him off focus as to why he is in your organization. Make sure to define his job description to him over and over again in every way possible so that he can quickly get a hold of what he is actually doing in the organization.
Set feedback stations:
Setting a feedback station exclusively for your new hire will help you in knowing and eliminating all kinds of hindrances occurring in the onboarding process. You can assign this task to trusted people from within your organization. In this way, the new hire will have a chance to give his feedback and share his problems and you will be able to monitor his performance and streamline the experience for him.
