How to Successfully Onboard New Employees Even During Shutdown

This article articulates the importance of incorporating a robust Learning Management System (LMS) for onboarding new employees amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Using an LMS for onboarding purposes, can maximize efficiency in introducing new recruits to your corporate culture, accelerate job satisfaction, productivity and inoculate against turnover.

With forced quarantine being deployed by governments around the world to control the Coronavirus pandemic, companies have implemented work from home strategy to ensure welfare of its employees. However, a decrease in productivity, employee engagement, and a constant effort to bridge the communication gap, is a genuine concern of working remotely. One of the key concerns is – how to ensure successful onboarding process of new employees, while the workforce operates from home. Since onboarding is a reception phase of an employee who joins the organization, it becomes crucial for any organization to ensure and retain employee loyalty, maximize productive, and minimize turnover rate. For this reason alone, organizations are now deploying modern Learning Management Systems to bolster positive employee experience via virtual onboarding process. 

Understanding Virtual Onboarding

Brookshire’s Grocery Company, which has been awarded, “America’s Best-In-State Employer for Texas, 2019”, by Forbes, achieved 100% acceptance rate by more than 9,000 employees who underwent virtual onboarding and training, using a robust learning management system. Work from home based scenario shouldn’t and mustn’t inhibit employers from providing the best onboarding experience to new employees. Using a learning management system (LMS) for onboarding purpose can maximize efficiency in introducing new recruits to your corporate culture, accelerate job satisfaction, productivity, and inoculate against turnover. 

                              Source: Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success, Talya N. Bauer,2010

Benefits of Using a Robust LMS for Onboarding of New Employees Amid the Pandemic

1. Create a productive corporate culture with amalgamated learning material - With LMS, your HR team has strong control over the message that the organization would like to deliver to the recruits, during an introductory virtual orientation. Whether it is a mandatory compliance training, company’s value-mission-culture learning session, or a general view of its products and services courses, LMS helps in instilling an organization’s core values and goals among new employees, even as they work from home. In a nutshell, LMS helps an employer by converting manual process into a digital format and automate routines, saving money and man-hours.

2. Track and evaluate the learning curve of each employee - LMS can help employers to track the onboarding progress of each employee, with auto-generated reports and advanced analytics, without having to prepare, manage and transcribe to paper forms. By analyzing the assessments, employers can take corrective measures to help new recruits to retain knowledge, by aligning the right onboarding course with their learning needs; all while working from home.

3. Cost-effective technique -A Learning Management System meticulously organizes the onboarding information in an interactive and engaging way, so that it is successfully acquired and retained by the employees. Since its online, it saves the cost of organizing the training session (physical set-up), content creation, and, most important, the logistics of it. In short, you save big, as you onboard and welcome new recruits, while working from home.

4. Ease of use – LMS is an interactive device-based and web-based application that is compatible with an array of mobile devices, tablets, laptops, etc., most suitable for ‘on-the-go’ learners. This essentially means that content or learning modules are presented visually and can be accessed from anywhere and at any time, making it high on accessibility rate. The content for training can be delivered virtually, but in real-time, as per the needs of the organization. Learners also have easy access to notification dashboards. The best part is – user can access the learning material on their smartphones, in both online and offline mode.

GCube Learning Management System

GCube LMS is the proprietary learning management system that supports powerful authoring tools to create interactive content and deliver the relevant knowledge to achieve organizational success. The system’s unique approach to GUI brings information to the fore that helps employees utilize the system faster, and provides measurable ROI through stringent analytics. It is SCORM and Tin Can complain, with customizable and multi-lingual support to cater to the learning needs of your diverse ethnic workforce. To know more, you can write to info@gc-solutions.net.