Tuesday
Sep072010
Facilitating Onboarding or Induction
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 3:56AM
After recently completing a big project where more than 110 induction and onboarding sessions were facilitated, I wrote an article published here in Human Capital.
Too often the PowerPoint data show gets plugged in, new members of the team walk in to a darkened theatre and the ‘on boarding’ begins. It’s ‘oh so boring’.
Facilitated discussions, questions and interactive activities can very much be a part of onboarding, inductions and other welcome sessions in organisations. If the excuses are about budget or timing or urgency, then the development team just isn’t being creative enough. If you want to invest in the new people joining your team, start with some of the first experiences they’ll have with you - make these sessions engaging and interactive using talented and capable facilitators who can work with structure as well as uncertainty. It will be a nice change from those passive information sessions that ran in too many organisations this week that are called ‘onboarding’.
Too often the PowerPoint data show gets plugged in, new members of the team walk in to a darkened theatre and the ‘on boarding’ begins. It’s ‘oh so boring’.
Facilitated discussions, questions and interactive activities can very much be a part of onboarding, inductions and other welcome sessions in organisations. If the excuses are about budget or timing or urgency, then the development team just isn’t being creative enough. If you want to invest in the new people joining your team, start with some of the first experiences they’ll have with you - make these sessions engaging and interactive using talented and capable facilitators who can work with structure as well as uncertainty. It will be a nice change from those passive information sessions that ran in too many organisations this week that are called ‘onboarding’.