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How to Onboard for Retention in a Competitive Hiring Market

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These findings are part of a new report released today by SilkRoad in partnership with Forbes Insights, which surveyed 212 U.S. Onboarding should not be treated as brief transaction focused on compliance and forms, it’s the start of a journey that leads to employee engagement, satisfaction and retention. Other interesting findings?

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Just Published: Forbes Insights Report “Employee Engagement in Age of Digital Disruption”

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When one in four CFOs say that unwanted turnover accounts for 25% to 50% of labor costs (one in 10 say it eats up 50%), you know that talent retention is critical to business strategies. Increasing employee retention through better engagement has been adopted by one in three organizations. Click through and download the full report.

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The Importance of Personalizing Your Onboarding Experience

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Best practices for onboarding new employees are rooted in retention and engagement. Retention starts with onboarding. It’s easy to see that communicating these performance values greatly benefits the organization. The post The Importance of Personalizing Your Onboarding Experience appeared first on SilkRoad.

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4 Pillars to Build a High Impact Strategic Onboarding Program

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Strategic onboarding offers all sorts of benefits: speeding new hire productivity, creating deeper new hire engagement and improving retention. Benefit for new hires: provides an understanding of the culture and how to thrive in in. Benefit for new hires: creates “go to” people for coaching, advice and professional development.

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5 Effective Activities for Onboarding in High-Turnover Industries

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The reasons that employees are leaving vary – everything from better pay and benefits to more supportive management. In a survey from Korn Ferry Futurstep, ninety-eight percent (98) of senior executives feel that onboarding has a positive connection when it comes to employee retention. This ties into the concept of “just in time”.

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Discern Real-Time Skill Needs Through Agile Feedback

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This increase in frequently certainly benefits the process, but can we take it even further? Agile feedback systems provide an important mechanism for coaching and collaboration, and in boosting manager awareness of problems sooner rather than later, they aid in retention as well.

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Measuring Onboarding Effectiveness Using SilkRoad Analytics

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[Editor’s Note: This blog post comes from Nirmala Pol, Data Visualization Analyst on SilkRoad’s R&D team and Mimi Jerkan, Talent Activation Director for SilkRoad]. SilkRoad Task Status and Assignee Promptness helps to draw deep insights that help determine where you might need some coaching and intervention to improve the process.