What is Onboarding?

Onboarding is the process by which a new employee is integrated into a new company. The onboarding process should include training on specialized equipment and software, introduction to key players in the business and introduction to corporate policies.
It is believed that those companies who offer a strong onboarding process for their new hires typically are [...]

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More about Onboarding

Most companies today offer some sort of an orientation process for new hires. Socializing new hires into the overall company is helpful not only to the new hire, but also for the others who that new hire will be working with. Successful onboarding helps the new hire get acclimated to their new role as well [...]

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Onboarding and Employment Law

Employment law plays a definite role in successful onboarding. With ever growing regulations for immigration status, tax information and more, generally the onboarding process starts with providing your new hires with a new hire manual. These manuals not only help to explain the overall benefits packages available from your company but they also are designed [...]

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Onboarding Challenges

Today, our workplaces are evolving regularly. We’re trying to be more aware of the impact of our offices on the environment and therefore when we’re working with new hires we also have to put our recycling policies into place and make sure that our new hires understand all of the ‘green’ efforts that a company [...]

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General Succession Planning

In organizational development, succession planning is defined as the process of identifying and preparing suitable employees through mentoring, training and job rotation, in order to replace key players eventually- such as the chief executive officer (CEO) – within an organization as their terms expire, if they leave due to unforeseen circumstances (such as death or [...]

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Business Succession Planning

Business succession planning involves planning for the smooth continuance and success of a business that depends greatly on the availability of competent staff members. Be it a profit or non-profit organization, one of the concerns is that there may be no adequate successor to lead if the leader or key person vacates his/her position – [...]

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Family Business Succession Planning

Due to the complex nature of transferring ownership of family businesses from one generation to the next, specific resources have been developed for family business owners specifically planning for this transition. Among these resources is the McCabe Arch, which is a visualization and planning tool for the average American business owner. It proffers practical solutions [...]

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Instructions for an Employee Focus Group – Part 1

Focus groups are a very effective way to evaluate services or test new ideas within a given group. To put it simply, focus groups are interviews, but of 6-10 people at the same time in the same group instead of one-on-one. One can learn a great deal of information during a proper focus group session. [...]

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Employee Focus Groups – Part 2

Developing Questions

Develop five to six questions. The standard time frame for an employee focus group is one hour to 90 minutes, and five or six questions is enough to fill this time.
Always first ask yourself what problem or need [...]

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Employee Focus Groups Part 3

Facilitating the Session

Major goal of facilitation is collecting useful information to meet the goal of meeting.
Introduce yourself and the co-facilitator, if available.
Explain the means to record the session, if used.
Carry out the agenda – (See [...]

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