Onboarding - A Key To Retention

HR Strategy & Leadership
Written By Josie Lyn
Onboarding employees retention

Hiring is hard. Many managers spend so much time looking for the right talent but neglect having effective onboarding. By doing this, they likely are decreasing their long-term success.

Onboarding is often confused with hiring and orientation. Onboarding is more correctly understood as a process that begins pre-hire and spans an employee’s first year. Research shows that successful onboarding is one of the most critical indicators for employee retention.

When onboarding is done well, it leads to:

  • Higher job satisfaction

  • Organisational commitment

  • Lower turnover

  • Higher performance levels

  • Career effectiveness

  • Lowered stress

Many onboarding tools exist for managers, and at Genovations Consulting HR, we’d be happy to help you with your onboarding process. Feel free to ask us about onboarding tools such as analysing your track record, conversation guides, orientation programs, written onboarding plans, new peer integration, 360-degree feedback, performance reviews and calendarization, research-based onboarding guides, and new hire checklists.

Josie Lyn
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