Employee engagement is something every company and its HRs are struggling with. The importance of engagement is due to its direct link to employee retention. 

90% of employees decide if they wish to stay or leave within the first six months of them joining the company. 

There is one aspect everyone tends to ignore and that is onboarding. If employee engagement is encouraged properly from day 1, you can get better engagement results. 

Hence, the onboarding process needs to be planned carefully. An HR onboarding software can help you with a smooth onboarding process and also with better employee engagement. 

What is onboarding software? 

Onboarding software helps HRs to streamline the onboarding process. The software makes it easier for the HRs to manage the initial paperwork, educate them about the company, give them an on-demand training course and monitor their progress. It is very useful in managing the onboarding process boosting employee engagement. 

New joiners benefit from this too. Their paperwork becomes easy and they get a fair idea about the company beforehand. 

How can onboarding software help with employee engagement? 

Since covid 19 happened the wave of doing everything virtually has arrived. There is nothing wrong with it but making the process of joining a new company easy, entertaining, and engaging for the new hires is a difficult task. This is exactly where onboarding software can help. 

Get rid of boring paperwork

The initial paperwork is enough to make the onboarding process boring for the new hires. With onboarding software for aid, you can speed up the process. Send them welcome emails for starters. You can use the system to send a pre-made email to multiple users with ease. The software lets employees create a digital signature in minutes so they don’t have to go through the trouble of creating one.  

HRs can check the progress of an employee on the dashboard. How many papers have they submitted and are there any left to be submitted? Once you have the data you can send reminders with a single click. 

Although this has nothing to do with employee engagement directly, reducing this paperwork will give them more time to get comfortable with the company culture. 

Make it more human 

With virtual onboarding giving a human touch to the whole process is necessary when it comes to engagement. The best way to do this would be by sending personalized messages to each employee. 

But isn’t personalizing so many messages difficult? It isn’t. With onboarding software on board, you can easily create pre-personalized messages using the employee data like their role, location, department, and a simple message template. 

You can even send a good morning message with the tasks they have to do for the day.

You can record and send a few messages from your CEO and other managers and employees welcoming the new hires to the company. You can send these videos to the new hires easily with the onboarding software. Segregate the employees based on their roles and departments and send an appropriate message to them that feels natural and personalized. 

Better communication

You can assign a buddy to them on your onboarding software. They can communicate with their buddy very easily. Let the buddy help them with knowing other employees. The buddy will help facilitate a smooth transition of an unknown senior employee to a co-worker you can rely on for help

Onboarding software can help them communicate easily with other employees other than the buddy. 

Regularly communicate to them the company’s core values. Send them daily reminders and notifications of what is happening in the company and make them feel like they are a part of the team as soon as possible. 

You can go a step further and send them messages from managers acknowledging their effort and progress. The software can help you send such messages in no time. 

Take feedback 

There is nothing better than making an employee feel heard. Taking and considering those feedback is essential. But feedback forms are boring. With onboarding software, you can get intelligent stats and insights on each employee’s performance and level of engagement. With this data on hand, you can take appropriate action and try to give them a better and more engaging onboarding experience. 

Conclusion 

The bottom line is that an onboarding experience needs to be smooth, personalized and should be able to facilitate good communication. If you don’t feel qualified to be the landlord that physically fixes things, you can pay to have a Columbus property manager.

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