It may at first seem like hiring is the most important and the toughest part of the whole recruitment process. But what people fail to figure out is that after hiring new employees, the struggle actually begins. Employee onboarding is a very important step for retaining the employees and having long term healthy and flourishing relationships with them.
The onboarding experience can make or break your employee retention which is very important to minimize the expenditure of hiring processes; thus sparing your company a lot of resources. Employees are three times more likely to stay for the next 3 years after a great onboarding experience than without or a badly executed onboarding. A good onboarding process increases retention, engagement and even productivity of the newly hired employees.
When it comes to onboarding, webinars are becoming increasingly popular as a very engaging and convenient as well as effective way of onboarding that will make your new employees feel thrilled to join and work for your company.
Here are some tips you should consider while hosting an onboarding webinar if you want it to be successful.
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The Three Pillars of Onboarding
The three pillars of onboarding are three major factors to consider when you are doing any kind of onboarding, including onboarding webinars. These three factors give your onboarding process a clear direction and a solid structure and your onboarding becomes a huge success.
- Company Information: This should be the initiation of any onboarding process. This part of the process should mainly consist of the basic information about the company. The basic information can include information about crucial paperwork, payroll process, vacation policies and any other information that needs to be given to the new employees.
- Job Role Instruction: This part mostly deals with the job role information. This includes the exact clear information about what is the work that the employees are expected to do, the roles they are supposed to carry and at the end making sure that everyone is on the same page.
- Company culture Demonstration: At the end, this part is to show off the company’s work culture, ethics and values. It is the best time to tell your employees about the perks of working in your company, any kind of flexibilities and incentives etc that can surely make the employee excited about working in the organization.
Including the Right People
During an onboarding webinar, it is very important to have the right kind of people in the webinar; the people who are relevant to the employee lifecycle in a company and to the structure of your onboarding because the employees will only be attentive if the information that is being given is relevant to what they are going to experience. Thus, ideally consider having a representative from the HR department, at least one manager of the specific department that the employees are hired into and a coworker. The HR representative can speak during the company information portion as they can give them relevant information about the company. The department manager is the most ideal person to talk about the job information and the coworker can be a familiar face and a mentor while talking about the work culture and company values.
The More Interactive, the Better
Webinars are time-taking and thus there are good chances that they can become very boring at a point. If done in the old fashioned way of pushing information on the employees, it can become very difficult to hold the attention of the people attending the webinar which totally nullifies the purpose and the effectiveness of the process. The ultimate way to counter this is to make the webinar more interactive through gamification. Gamification has been proven to be a major tool for adult learning that also helps in retaining the information; it can be done through including a chat box, poll or a Q&A session for every portion of the webinar.
Consider Feedbacks
One of the best things about hosting webinars is that you can get feedback for the next webinar you are going to host. Feedback lets you understand what works and what doesn’t and gives you the opportunity to fill in the gaps. The feedback will also let you know what the new employee thinks about the process and the company.
Conclusion:
It is the era of digitization and it has opened a lot of new doors to opportunities that were earlier unimaginable. Among all these digital tools, onboarding webinars are one of them. Such webinars give your employees an onboarding experience never before which in turn, benefits your organization majorly.
Webinars can be done on learning management systems that allow integration with web conferencing tools like Zoom. Mindflash learning management system gives you all the necessary tools and integration options to host successful webinars that can make a huge impact on the onboarding process of your company.