How to retain employees through successful onboarding?

Retaining employees and reducing turnover is not a relatively simple mission for some companies. This requires several factors to be taken into account: the well-being of its employees and its employer brand. THEOnboarding is a way to reduce the risks of resignation after hiring and talent flight. It is estimated that approximately 80% of new hires make the decision to stay with the company in the first six months. A recruit who goes through a comprehensive onboarding process is approximately 58% more likely to stay with the company. But how is that possible? What are the steps to follow?

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Step 1: Don't miss the essential onboarding rules

Successful onboarding means respecting certain rules to retain employees and considerably reduce turnover. To make sure you don't forget anything, we've prepared a checklist for you:

Do not abandon the new collaborator:

• Welcome digital (prior to arrival) and physics (upon arrival);
• Prepare your equipment before arrival (badge, desk and computer station).

Involve other employees:

• Alert them of the arrival of the new collaborator;
• Mobilize them and define a referent.

13% of new employees are not introduced to their team. For 17% of them, their arrival was not even announced. It is one of the mistakes to avoid.

Introduce the team, the premises and the corporate culture: imbuing the newcomer into the corporate world and the employer brand is essential for successful onboarding.

By respecting these steps, you increase your chances of keeping your talents in the company. One Successful onboarding makes it possible to improve the well-being of employees and to avoid early contract terminations. A breach of contract during the trial period would cost the company more than €50,000 according to L'Express.

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What actions should be put in place?

- Do not leave the employee at his expense

- Involve other employees

- Introduce the team, the premises and the corporate culture to the new collaborator

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Step 2: Offer immersive experiences

Onboarding is the ideal time to impress your employees. Missing the first moments of the new employee in the company can be fatal. 45% of resignations take place in the first year. Your employees are ambassadors of your brand. The more they are disappointed with the welcome, the more they will talk about it around them. One more reason to succeed in onboarding.

More and more businesses are being seduced by gamification. This allows you to bring a fun side to a moment that can be stressful for the new employee..

In short, The gamification of onboarding allows you to:

• Improving team cohesion: improves communication between employees by uniting around a common objective.

• Develop the employer brand: the positive impact of gamification makes it possible to have a better brand image.

• Generating commitment: following a common objective allows the employee to see himself in the future of the company, beyond being the new employee, he is a collaborator.

Thanks to the mechanics of the game, gamification allows the development of dopamine (pleasure hormone) and encourages players to give their best. The new collaborator will learn while having fun and creating relationships with colleagues. A successful employee after onboarding is much more likely to stay with the company.

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What actions should be put in place?

- Implement gamification in onboarding

- Unite employees around a common objective

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Step 3: Don't overlook the after

Not neglecting onboarding is good, but creating a follow-up afterwards is better! It is important to learn from the main indicators of the integration journey, whether positive or negative, to ensure business success. To optimize onboarding failures, they must first be analyzed according to the company's sector. Each sector has its key figures (retention rate, absenteeism rate, etc.). Repairing mistakes makes it possible not to repeat them for future onboarding.

Follow-up individual interviews can be a good idea to not abandon the new employee and to gather their opinions.. The best solution remains the anonymous questionnaire to free up the voice of employees.

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What actions should be put in place?

- Analyze and optimize onboarding failures

- Establish individual interviews or anonymous questionnaires to collect opinions

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What to remember

• To succeed in onboarding and retain employees, it is important to:
  
  • Do not miss some essential rules:
    
    • Do not abandon the collaborator
    • Involve other employees
    • Introduce the locals, the team and the corporate culture

• Use gamification to make onboarding more fun and convey a positive image of the company
  

• Be careful not to overlook the aftermath of onboarding: optimize failures and gather feedback