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Onboarding can be a tricky task – boiling down every bit of a person’s career into a consumable experience without overwhelming them is quite a thin line to balance. Even deciding where to start can be overwhelming for the *lucky* soul in charge of the onboarding process!
But onboarding doesn’t have to be a challenging mountain to climb, so long as you stick to the three bones of onboarding: 1. Personalization Your new hire is coming into your organization with a unique background and experiences, which will shape their experiences and interactions with your organization. Gather information about their background and how they may apply their experiences to understanding your organization. Once you do this, it will help you position the onboarding process in a way that’s specifically relevant to them. 2. “Just in Time” Now that you’ve boiled down a person’s career into one L&D platform with 30 hours of compliance training loaded, compiled a 100 page PDF of resources, and set up 15 meetings with key stakeholders for new hires, you’re done right? Wrong. This is way too much information for anyone to absorb, much less apply. But it’s all critical information, so what do you do? You deliver the information when it can be utilized. This method of learning is shown to be more effective – applied knowledge is stored and remembered more easily than unapplied knowledge. 3. Community Getting your team involved in the onboarding process not only takes the pressure / onus off you, but it also creates a more immersive experience for your new hire. With the full team involved in their onboarding, the new hire will feel like they’re part of the team more organically and, ideally, faster. This also helps the team empathize with the new hire’s experience, and allowing everyone to be accountable for the new hire’s success. These three bones are the foundation to an effective onboarding process, but there’s much more that goes into fleshing these out to build an experience that is relevant to your people. Interested in learning more? Contact us!
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 Never work with children or animals they say. Sound advice as we prepared to shoot six videos in three days for a professional services client at their facility in Westlake, an upmarket suburb of Dallas, Texas. OK, our shoot didn't have any children, but we did have two animals. Sure, one was a child's toy, but you never know. Luckily for us, the other, a dachshund schnauzer cross called Rigsby, was incredibly well behaved. As were our crew, who were amazing. The challenge with any shoot is coping with the unexpected and making sure you get exactly the footage you need - you literally get one shot. This can be especially tricky when you're shooting outdoors. On any shoot, the weather can be a demanding diva, prone to sulking and spoiling your day. For us, she managed to maintain a beautiful disposition, ensuring day long sunshine - we did all get sunburnt though, just to remind us who's boss. Apart from Dallas air traffic control insisting on routing every plane within a 50 mile radius over our location every few minutes, we managed to contain the external factors to a minimum. The days were long, but very productive and well marshalled by the team at Casual Films, our partner on the shoot. Extremely professional and very client friendly, they coped with the intricacies of shooting in a sometimes sensitive environment. We've seen the first edit and it looks amazing, and we're confident the rest of the videos will be just as good. Film shoots can be either a lot of fun or very hard work - our shoot in Texas managed to be a combination of both. Gary Singh, Project Manager |
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