Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization

2THE STATE OF THE ART:ESSENTIALS OFSTRATEGIC ONBOARDING

Fact: Every new hire in your organization is onboarded. This is true regardless of whether or not your organization has any formal strategy or program for doing so. As a series of on-the-job experiences interpreted separately by the hiring manager and the new hire, the process includes formal events as well as the far more numerous everyday experiences that take place from the moment of offer acceptance through, say, the end of the first year. In the mind of the new hire, onboarding also includes all non-experiences that the new hire may have expected but that never actually occurred or were disappointing. All of these experiences—and non-experiences—shape new hires’ perception of employment ...