Quality onboarding process
According to The Balance, a quality onboarding process is essential. This is the process of introducing a new employee to their team and involves not only welcoming the employee among current team members, but above all a quality and well developed system of initial training that covers everything the employee needs to know.
Buddy system
Allocate a buddy to the newly hired employee, in other words a senior colleague whom the employee may ask anything anytime. A buddy is not a mentor but just a colleague, there to help with purely practical tasks in connection with the new working environment.
Open communication within the team
In order to introduce a new colleague in a quality way, open and effective communication within the team is necessary. Communication must be based on a system the new employee may easily join.
Listening and presence at meetings
An effective way to train a new employee is their physical presence at meetings of managers and colleagues. A human being learns best from practice, not theory, and therefore it is advisable to engage the new colleague as soon as possible in real meetings with business partners, colleagues and customers.
Option of individual initiative
One way to make the job of a new business team member easier is to give them space for their own invention and individual approach. Set up only the most essential rules of work and leave the rest to the individual attitude of the employee as it best suits them.
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