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Quick onboarding to offer quality immediately

Marloes — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:37:34 +0000

The job market is overstrained, there are now even 133 vacancies per 100 unemployed (source: CBS). A logical consequence of this is that there are inexperienced employees in various positions. Look at the problems at Schiphol, but also in the catering industry (where most vacancies are open), logistics, at helpdesk functions, you will encounter the same problem everywhere. And not alone in the Netherlands.

But what can we do about the staff shortage?

There are, of course, several roads that lead to Rome. There are still people

available for work, the unemployed or people who want to work more hours. By perhaps organizing childcare differently, parents can work more.

We can also offer the elderly and people with an occupational disability more opportunities in the job market. Or we can invest in labour-saving technologies. And what do you think of paying better for employees? That also happens too little.

But don’t forget that training people or retraining current employees is also a nice option! And there are many other things to think of.

Offering quality remains a must

Companies want to continue to offer the same quality and speed to their customers, but their new employees simply work slower. And that’s not surprising, because when you start somewhere new there is a lot to learn. And then it is also immediately very busy at your new position.

Onboarding must be done quickly and properly

You can actually see it in the vacancies that are open, there are many vacancies at large companies often looking for learning consultants. These should ensure that the onboarding of new employees happens quickly. But also good of course. In this way these employees are faster incorporated and they can function for the full 100% faster.

The learning consultant must look for an onboarding method that fits for every position to the target audience and the company. That is sometimes quite a tough job, because this learning also consultant must pick up the work very quickly and must not delay.

How can Future Learning help with this?

We at Future Learning also have these learning & development people for you. They can take over the full onboarding process at companies. Temporary or permanent. For this we can use a learning experience platform in combination with modern interactive video and virtual reality content. This ensures cost savings and time savings.

A company can of course also use the learning experience platform that is already being used at the moment. Our consultants are familiar with almost all systems or learn quickly the one already used.

We can also work with companies that have already hired a learning consultant. We can offer a learning management system that best suits the company and the position. We can even offer support to help the learning consultant in using the tool.

All this to make it really easy for companies to get their new employees on board quickly! Want to know more about this? Feel free to contact us!

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Five tips for onboarding

Marloes — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:50:38 +0000

Five tips for an unforgettable onboarding

Innumerable different companies, but also innumerable different learning solutions …

We would like to discover together with you which didactic concept and which learning solution fits best within your company.

Because we have experience in developing processes for a wide range of customers, we realize that every customer has his own needs.

Here we already give you five tips, so you can see if Future Learning can mean something for you!

Don’t forget the preboarding….

Whether this took place three or thirty years ago, you will never forget that incredibly exciting first working day. To ensure a minimum of nodding knees and to give employees a warm welcome, we can provide your company with preboarding.Even before the start of their career within your company, your employees know what they can expect about the first working day, they get a view of their immediate colleagues and they know what they should or should not bring! Online learning offers the ideal solution for this: your employee can choose when he or she starts working.

Just turn it around: Flipped Classroom

And what about after the preboarding? Well, in the past training programs often consisted of a training day, in which you were presented with a huge amount of theory. But … isn’t it more interesting to communicate this theory via e-learning? This way the newcomers can go through the theory at their own pace and chosen time. This allows you to use the possible training day much better: for example, you can set up all kinds of exercises, whereby they can put the theory into practice. Research shows that learning by doing has an enormous impact on the effectiveness of your new employees!Do you implement questions in the online module via ILIAS, for example? Then as a teacher you can keep track of where the employers are struggling. You get a simple overview of who made which mistakes. This way you know perfectly what you can pay extra attention to during the training day. Or you can of course pass it on to the newcomer’s mentor!

Learn with and from each other!

It is nice to know you are not alone. Social learning ensures that students can learn with ánd from each other. Via the various communication options in ILIAS, you can also stimulate this via the online platform. This allows newcomers to talk to their fellow starters ánd you give the signal that dialogue and interaction are more than welcome within your company.Future Learning can provide forums, an integrated chat system and a news system! This way students (and teachers!) Can communicate with each other in a very accessible way. Collaborative learning: check!

Think outside the box

Future Learning: the name says it all. We always try to think in the future. That is why we like to experiment with the possibilities of e.g. Virtual Reality, 360° videos and interactive animations. We completely immerse learners in work situations unknown to them through the most innovative learning solutions.Just fun, because of the hype factor? No, there are numerous companies that already use VR during onboarding, such as Air France, Microsoft and L’Oréal. Consider, for example, employers who have to work in dangerous situations, which they can go through in advance and without risk. Or all kinds of role plays that can be simulated via Virtual Realty!

An inspiring long-term process …

Of course you can tell your employees that they must read a certain book or follow a theoretical course. But how much do they really remember? A successful onboarding is not finished after a day. With efficient organizations, it takes one up to three months! But how do you keep them enthusiastic all those weeks? How do you give employers a good impression of your company? And vice versa: how do you get a good idea of the newcomers?At Future Learning we are happy to help you with that! Together with your employees we formulate the learning objectives, we examine the preconditions and we develop inspiring learning content in the form of animations, videos, test questions, games and so on!

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Onboarding jobhoppers

Marloes — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:45:50 +0000

How to keep job hoppers onboard

Job-hopping millennials, huge staff changes and stiff starters: we see it everywhere. A solution for this persistent problem? Get acquaintanted with onboarding!
But what does onboarding actually mean? Could it be an added value for my company? And how do you develop such a learning path? Here we provide answers to all your urgent questions.

What to do against jobhopping?

Open a newspaper and you come across it: the “job hopping” phenomenon is becoming more and more common and your workplace will also have to deal with it. A huge study by Deloitte among more than 10,000 millennials shows that only 28 percent say they want to stay with the same employer for more than five years. In addition – and this does not only apply to the millennials – no less than twenty percent of employees leave the organization within 45 days.

But what can you do about this? Well, ensure a good pre- and onboarding process … This increases staff retention by no less than 25 percent! As you can see, you can’t really overestimate the importance of good onboarding. After a successful onboarding trajectory, employees are more positive about their job, are trained faster and have more confidence in their new position.

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Strategic onboarding more than adaptation of HR and recruitment

Joke — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:08:16 +0000

Many organizations today recognize that onboarding does not only apply when hiring interns, but that it is a top priority when hiring new employees and has a major impact on the continued success of new employees within the organization.

What is onboarding?
Successful onboarding is a structured approach to better integrate new employees within the organization. It is a strategic initiative that leads to an improved relationship between new employees and the company. This relationship offers added value through an optimized interaction between company and employees. It is a process in which the workforce as a whole becomes more enthusiastic and adapts better to the specific needs of the company and the strategy of the company. This results in a competitive advantage and added value for all stakeholders. How can a successful onboarding program be realized? The best onboarding programs are based on the following 5 steps:

1. Involve the entire organization with onboarding
Well-performing organizations with good onboarding programs continuously improve these initiatives. Modern mobile and video technology can help optimize existing onboarding programs. Use social functionality to capture feedback and ideas. Use notifications and messages as teasers to announce new things and be part of them.

ILIAS Business Edition of Future Learning offers all possibilities for this out-of-the-box and can be used on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

2. Create a team with people from different parts of the organization
Usually these teams consist of 5-6 colleagues from different disciplines such as recruitment, (internal) communication and HR, but also the business itself. It is also important to appoint a project manager who ensures that the onboarding program is actually created and leads to improvement.

Use from the outset a learning and knowledge environment to share knowledge and to communicate between different parts of the organization and management.

3. Design the required content and define the results to be achieved
By means of an internal analysis all gaps in the existing way of working in and the ambitions for the future are determined. With a number of workshops, all content and the learning path are designed from recruiting a new employee until the end of the first year. It can take a year for a new employee to become truly productive. How should a new employee be able to perform after a year?
Make content and learning path as concrete as possible by means of examples, including photos, sketches and videos. Also check out material from other companies to see what they are doing to achieve results. Divide the process into small steps and keep the final goal in mind.

The ILIAS environment offers all possibilities for designing these learning paths, and centrally managing the required content and knowledge in one library.

4. Try out the onboarding program first
Select a group of employees to try out the new onboarding program and also experiment with new employees who recently joined the company. They can provide great insights on what can be improved and their feedback will accelerate the design process of the onboarding program.

ILIAS offers as a learning environment all possibilities to unlock a learning path with content for onboarding to selected groups and to obtain feedback.

5. Check on a regular base whether the onboarding program is working properly
Organizations are ecosystems that evolve and change regularly. So leave room for changing opinions about the program in collaboration with colleagues from other departments through an agile improvement team. The team continuously thinks about new innovative ideas about the onboarding program.

ILIAS offers as a knowledge environment all possibilities to collect and assess knowledge and ideas, so that improvements can be made easily and quickly. In addition, ILIAS offers an extensive personal tracking system with reporting options for the team and management, on the basis of which the program can quickly be adapted and improved.

Contact Future Learning for a successful onboarding.

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