5 tips for an engaging employee onboarding experience

Employee onboarding is crucial for introducing new employees to their new roles, new colleagues, and the working environment they will be in.

Here is how you can create an engaging employee onboarding experience in 5 easy to follow steps:

Step #1: Use a checklist

An onboarding checklist can help you ensure that you have covered everything per company processes and have the onboarding activities lined-up and ready for the new employees.

Step #2: Prepare

• Check if you have all the requirements you need from the new employees in order to include them in the employee onboarding.?
• Check if the resources and the tools needed during employee onboarding are accessible for the new employees.

Step #3: Conduct an orientation program

Make it engaging! Listening to one person read slide after slide of company policy, vision-mission, employee handbook, etc., can get boring real fast.?

Your preparation will come in handy as you highlight only the crucial information that new employees need to learn this early in their employment.

Step #4: Introductions

While giving the new employees a tour of the premises to showcase their new working environment, use this chance to introduce them to staff.?

Managers can share what they do in the organization, and the team whom the new employees will be directly working with can introduce themselves and welcome the new employees.

Step #5: Training

Provide learning materials that include easily accessible job aids that can help trigger memory and something that employees can check anytime.?

Invite tenured employees to provide examples of real-world scenarios and share best practices during training.

If you’re looking for additional ideas for creating great, engaging employee onboarding experiences,?check out this employee onboarding guide.