5 Ways an Onboarding Checklist Can Turbocharge Employee Productivity in Your Company

Companies with the potential for immense success seize the opportunity for growth every time. They increase their productivity from down up ensuring that their time is not spent on mundane tasks but rather valid tasks that indicate gradual profit. One of the ways they cling to this is by focusing on their onboarding process.

According to a report developed by Glassdoor, titled, ” the true cost of a bad hire,” organizations with a robust onboarding process improve productivity by more than 70%. Those organizations annually record high ROI as they invest less to get more value from employees and reduce operational cost as each has an individual workflow process that helps him achieve more in less time.

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In this post, I want to share with you five ways an onboarding checklist can turbocharge employee productivity in your company. Let’s begin.

It Provides a Clear Workflow Process and Deliverables

If you don’t tell your new employees what is expected of them, they’re likely to fail. Many new employees are unsure of their responsibilities, they read it on the job advert but have little understanding of its implementation in real life.

When you create a workflow process highlighting milestones, communication direction and deliverables for your new employee, you’ll save yourself the time for task supervision and boost productivity.

The early creation of a roadmap that details task to be completed, how to complete it, why they should do it, the results of doing it and who to communicate it to will prevent confusion and encourage fruitful service delivery.

Builds Fast and Healthy Relationships

Have you experienced being lost in your first week of work in a new company? You have no friend except the person you report to, now you’re in search of a nice colleague to help break that situation. If care isn’t taken, this could lead to confusion and frustration for you.

An onboarding checklist for your employees will help you to connect new employees with their team members. With it, you can outline an office walk introduction to all the employees or a welcome breakfast.

Likewise, the checklist could specify how new employees are expected to shadow other colleagues for the first week. That way, they have someone to ask questions and help connect to the company’s culture quickly. As a result, new employees will quickly internalize your company culture and comfortably deliver their tasks.

Assists New Employees to Work Comfortably

Information overload distorts actionable practice and kills performance. Most companies bombard their new employees with links related to the job responsibilities leaving the new employee confused about what to learn first.

An onboarding checklist provides a structured platform that ensures that new employees get the information they need at the right time. This structure put the best learning practices of teaching from simple to complex into place and fosters easy learning and knowledge retention.

This simple learning style will assist your new employees to work comfortably and this will boost their performance and productivity.

Creates a Knowledge-Sharing Environment

Employee productivity continues to grow when you create a knowledge-sharing environment, where employees regard themselves as families and always lend themselves helping hands. Doing in-house training or earmarking a fund for in-service international training opportunities will encourage your employees to develop new skills on their own.

When they do, they will be satisfied with their gradual growth, appreciating your flexibility for them to grow, and they’ll be more valuable to you and the company in the following ways;

• Your organization-specific problem-solving tasks will not be shouldered on one person, other colleagues would know how to fix the same problem.
• There would be innovative and business growth as your employees will bring their added knowledge to create ideas
• There would be faster and better decision making as employees would have treated many case studies.
• Your employees will better interact with the customers and deliver excellent service.

Instigates Measurement and Evaluation

With an onboarding checklist, you can easily track the progress of your new employees. This is because as they resume, you’ve handed them your expectations in terms of job responsibilities, service delivery, networking and growth. So you have a baseline or a scale to measure their progress.

Take, for instance, if you own an agency that helps businesses drive more sales using content, an onboarding checklist will outline exactly the steps you take to get your clients the results they expect. That way, you can track your employees’ performance and know exactly if they’re doing the right thing or not.

Also, you can review this checklist to know exactly what each employee has achieved and what he’s yet to. This will encourage frequent and casual discussions with them to ensure that their goals of personal and professional development are met. In the process, they can share their challenges with you, so as to help you figure out how to help them.

Conclusion

The only way to achieve your business vision of growth and impact is to ensure that your employees use their work time productively. In most cases, they can’t do this alone unless you initiate it in their onboarding process. In this post, I’ve shared with you the boxes to tick when onboarding new employees so you can turbocharge their productivity in your company.

First, provide a clear workflow process and deliverables so they understand what their responsibilities are and how to implement them in your company’s context. Second, help them build a fast and healthy relationship so they don’t have a difficult time interacting and blending into the company’s culture. Also, create a good work atmosphere for them by avoiding information overload that kills performance. Rather, provide information to them at the right time.

Finally, create a knowledge-sharing environment where your employees can gradually acquire new skills that will bring about professional growth, value and boost innovation in your company.

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