Employee onboarding is an astonishingly powerful tool for your organization. Proven to increase productivity, better-satisfy your customers, and have a positive impact on growth, it undoubtedly has benefits your business.

1. World-Class
Employee
Onboarding:
A Practical Solution
for your Organization
Caoimhín Gillespie, Inside Sales Manager and Eoghan Quigley, Senior Digital Marketer

2. ● A modern, cloud-based LMS
● Over 1,000 customers worldwide including
TripAdvisor, Intuit Quickbooks, Twilio,
Logitech, and Ping
● Quick to set up, easy-to-use, powerful
features, and great customer support
● Named 2018 Technology Ireland
Company of the Year
A Quick Intro to LearnUpon

3. A learning management
system, or LMS for short, allows
you to create, deliver and report
on your organization’s training
courses and programs.
https://www.learnupon.com/blog/what-is-an-lms/
What is an LMS?

4. ● Inside Sales Manager at LearnUpon
● Named one of the Top LMS
Demonstrators in the world
● Worked directly on 400+ successful
LMS implementations
About
Caoimhín
Gillespie

5. Why Employee Onboarding?

6. Today we’ll share
● The impact effective employee
onboarding has on your organization
● How to transform your new hire
onboarding process
● Employee onboarding best practices

7. Let’s start with some stats
Effective employee onboarding leads to:
● 50% greater new hire productivity
● 69% of employees are more likely to stay if they’ve experienced great onboarding*
● 54% higher employee engagement
● Full proficiency is achieved 34% faster with longer onboarding programs
● 77% of employees reach their first performance goals
References:
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/dont-under
estimate-the-importance-of-effective-onboarding.aspx
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/onboarding
-key-retaining-engaging-talent.aspx
https://www.urbanbound.com/blog/onboarding-infographic-statistics

8. Practical employee onboarding
solution: 3 steps to success
● Plan your employee onboarding
● Invest in the right tools
● Use the right features in your LMS

9. ● Identify your onboarding goals
● Assemble your onboarding training team
● Document the steps that new hires need
to complete to achieve the onboarding
goals
● Use these steps to plan and build your
course content
● Know your KPIs and how you’ll measure
them
1. How to plan for employee
onboarding?

10. 2. Invest in the right tools
● To choose the right tools ask yourself:
○ How do you plan on onboarding?
○ What do you want to achieve?
● Top tip: Build your toolkit slowly
● Build an ecosystem of business software
over time

11. 3. Use the right features in your LMS
● Add new hires in batch or automatically
● Automate the enrolment process
● Set course due dates
● Group learners
● Assign admins, managers and instructors
● Generate reports to measure onboarding
success/KPI’s

12. Focus on a feature:
Learning paths
● Allows you to enroll the same learner in
multiple courses at the same time
● Perfect for if you want your users to
master a particular subject or program
● You tie multiple courses together, then assign
your learners to all these courses at once
● You enroll your learner and when they complete
one course, they move on to the next

13. Employee onboarding:
Best practices
● Create an onboarding experience that’s
smooth, straightforward, and
accomplishable
● Engaging course content + LMS features =
motivated employees
● Great onboarding should:
○ Be easily accessed
○ Be learner-friendly
○ Be engaging
○ Enable feedback

14. Easy, secure access
● Ensure access
○ Access to training needs
to be quick and easy
● Features to use:
○ SSO
○ Notifications

15. Deliver a learner-friendly
experience
● Taking courses needs to be
learner-friendly
● Features to use:
○ Easy-to-use learner dashboard
○ Learning paths
○ Self-directed and essential learning

16. Maximize engagement
● Course content should pique interest
and be rewarding to complete
● Features to use:
○ Dynamic course content
○ Gamification

17. Enable feedback
● Encourage reflection, opinions, and
two-way conversations to keep
employees interested
● Features to use:
○ Forums
○ Surveys

18. Key takeaways
● World class onboarding is an incremental,
iterative process
● From working with our customers we’ve
found that building great employee
onboarding should always:
1. Start with a plan
2. Develop a strategy
3. Then invest in solutions, like a
powerful, modern LMS to create the
best experience for your learners

19. Questions?

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Some useful resources:
● The Rules of eLearning Engagement
● Culture, Content, LMS: Prepare for eLearning Success
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