07/10/2019
Workforce Recruitment Tool Available: Onboarding Toolkit
Organizations are actively engaging in experiments for new hiring and onboarding approaches. Many are forming committees and asking questions such as:
- What do the first six hours of employment look like in our organization? The first week? Month? Longer?
- Are team members greeted warmly by their supervisor, a mentor and a peer?
- Who shares with them the history and values of our organization?
- Do we explain to new team members that they are an important part of the organization with access to people to support them and education to help them grow?
- Do they receive a tour, a warm meal and a multiple day orientation period that carefully paces out information in reasonable, digestible bites?
- Are new staff hired in a cohort so they have peers to lean on?
- Are there intentional check-ins at one week, 14 days, 30/60/90 days?
LeadingAge Ohio members have access to an important Onboarding Toolkit, which outlines five key onboarding principles:
- Welcoming a team member
- Introducing your organization’s culture
- Leveraging your organization’s mission/vision/values
- Exploring career pathways
- Building teamwork and relationships in the workplace
When this toolkit was presented at the recent LeadingAge Ohio Human Resources conference, attendees responded, saying:
“The tools for onboarding were great tools to take back to work to apply.”
“This toolkit will be helpful in evaluating our onboarding practices; great tools.”
“I found the onboarding practices toolkit one of the most helpful pieces of information of the day.”
Take time today to review the Onboarding Toolkit to engage your workforce and improve retention! A video, facilitation guide, activities, presentation slides and other important tools are provided.
Special thanks to LeadingAge Minnesota for the time and effort in developing this important resource for LeadingAge members across the country.
