eLearning Platforms Can Make Worker Orientation More Welcoming

As explained by PassionHR Consulting in Put Out the Welcome Mat When Hiring New Employees, "Developing a 'welcome strategy’ allows your employees to get settled in, meet their co-workers and get to know their surroundings can be helpful in making them feel secure in the job choice that they made."

Human resource management professionals know the importance of personal interactions when welcoming their new workers to the workplace. They also understand how critical it is to meet a plethora of compliance and employee benefits related education needs during the first days of employment. At times these can seem like conflicting goals.

Small Business owners as well know the challenges of onboarding new virtual assistants to their repetitive processes and the challenges of a distance "Hello and Welcome".

There is so much repetitive information that must be provided to each new worker the task can seem overwhelming and time consuming for HR and business owners. It can also be boring to repeat the same information each time. It can leave little time or energy to implement a truly welcoming strategy. 

Fortunately, technology is making it possible to create flexible, engaging content in bite-sized and often entertaining pieces that are easy to repeat, update and schedule for publication. It allows workers to virtually onboard customized company information when they are most open to learning, at their pace, but within your timeframe.  It provides the flexibility desired by modern workers that traditional, fully in-person orientation programs lack. It can help your carefully strategized in-person time to now feel more personal.

In addition, when you incorporate an eLearning platform for pieces of your onboarding process, you can offer workers a welcoming message from the CEO, Human Resources and other key staff to explain company culture and values, as well as standard processes and procedures.  You can even save time by giving them a virtual tour of the office via video. (They need to know where the restroom is on day one!)  And you can include attachments such as instructions, schedules, PDF tutorials and links to company and outside resources.  You can even quiz new workers on their understanding of the material for which you are holding them accountable or survey them on their expectations and goals.

eLearning platforms are available, practical and affordable for businesses of all sizes. So, all businesses have the opportunity to make new employee information welcoming and easy to digest while taking the repetitive load off of HR.

MobiFirst Academy has flexible features to make this possible.  Consider MobiFirst Academy for your new employee orientation and ongoing training needs.