If you read our last blog post, How Hiring the Wrong Person for $100,000 Position Can Cost you $500,000 over 18 months, you know you invest five times an employee’s salary in them.
By the way, if you haven’t read it, you’re missing some expensive information.
You have to collect the maximum on that investment, especially during uncertain times like the ones we live in now.
Thirty percent of employees have reported leaving a job in the first ninety days. You can substantially reduce this number by introducing a sound, time-tested hiring process.
Not having an onboarding process in your company may be a huge blind spot, but an easily fixable one.
Onboarding employees the right way is a crucial part of being a great leader. Often, owners and managers will hire someone and expect them to jump in the fire feet first. What is the only thing that can happen when you jump in the fire feet first? You get burned!
People are nervous when they get hired. They feel vulnerable. They want to do their best. You know they’re a good employee, or else you wouldn’t have hired them. It’s on you to help them adapt to their new environment. They need to know exactly what they’re doing and what is expected of them every day.
Hiring somebody is only the first step of the onboarding process. You need to ask yourself, can I write down the steps to onboard somebody at my company? If the answer is no, that is fine because you’re about to learn the four onboarding steps that Sandler Training has used for their employees and taught their clients for years.
1. List the things it takes to succeed at your company.
2. Put them in the order of priority.
3. Show an example of what success looks like at your company.
4. Test the system and refine it when necessary
Not having a reliable, tested onboarding process is how you could turn a potentially great hire into somebody who isn’t a good fit for your company. Remember, hiring somebody is an investment, and you need to collect the maximum ROI.
Not having a hiring process in your company is a huge blind spot, but only one of thirteen Sandler teaches. Enter your email address below to receive our 13 Blind Spots Survey.
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