Induction Training is absolutely vital for new employees, regardless of whether they are experienced or not. When come to a new company, new employees are thirsty to know more about their new work place, they want to quickly integrate into the new team. Many companies conduct induction training program to help employees integrate into the work environment. However, achieving the induction training goal within a short period of training time is really difficult. How to help new employees integrate into your new team quickly via induction training? Here are some points.

Make a good induction training plan

Making a good induction training plan is the cornerstone of success. The pre-piece stands, not pre-then waste. As an induction training manager, you should make a elaborate plan based on your company’s specific conditions and new employees’ characteristics before implementation. Training content, form, time, responsible person, cost should be included in your detailed plan.

Training content should be targeted

Induction training should be divided into basic training and professional training. Basic training includes corporate culture, corporate strategy, organizational structure, personnel welfare system, security, fire safety knowledge of common knowledge. Professional training is based on the level of the work responsibilities, work processes, working contents.Basic training can be for all new employees, while professional training should be conducted according to different departments and different types of work. Such training can help new employees quickly adapt to the environment and their new jobs and then improve their job performance.

Training form must be flexible

Make the form of induction training more flexible according to the new employee’s age, educational background, and training content.

• Outward Development – particularly helpful in training new staff’s team spirit and sense of innovation, and tapping new employees’ potential.
• Keynote lecture – invite leaders to conduct seminars and let new employees know company’s profiles to enhance their confidence for their occupation.
• On-site visit – lead new employees to visit representative production units, and make new employees have overall understanding for company operation process.
• Discussion between old and new employees – organize discussions between new employees and old employees. Old employees can share their work experience at company and the new employees ask questions and get answers about more details of the work or company, this can encourage new staff integrate into the company more quickly.

At the same time, training managers should strengthen the innovation of training form. Nowadays, induction training form becomes more diverse, more and more companies conduct E-learning and Mobile-learning to enrich their induction training program. These training forms will encourage new employees change their roles from outsiders into business professionals quickly and integrate into the new team. And it’s also an excellent opportunity to reinforce their decision to come and work for you.

Establish induction training effect feedback evaluation system

As with any type of training, it is important to review and seek feedback after induction training. The evaluation of induction training can be divided into three stages:

The first phase focuses on evaluating appropriateness for the training course content. You can organize all trainees to discuss the content of training course, and learn about their feeling for the training content.

The second stage focuses on the evaluation of new employees’ learning and academic performance. This can be evaluated through examinations: paper-based test is usually the most common way, but for the sake of time-saving and cost-effective, computer-based test will be the most recommending way. Making a test with Wondershare Quiz Maker, asking employees to take the test on computers, and then getting all the scores automatically.

The third stage, evaluation the work performance of the trainees through their supervisors. Through this, you can know how the new employees take their learned into practice. Also, you can learn the effect of induction training in practice.

High turnover is a head-breaking problem for companies. For many companies, new-hires leave before their probationary period is ended. If your company has a high turnover rate than your competitor, you will lose your good employees to your competitors. Also, your business will also suffer from high costs of attracting, recruiting and training the new staff. So, new hire training is the first important thing to reduce the rate of turnover and enhance the acculturation and productivity of new employees in companies.

Benefits of new hire training

New hires walk in with a fresh view of company and an intrinsic motivation to contribute to their job positions immediately. They start their first day with both excitement and worry. They want to excel in their new jobs, but they do not know where to start.

So, new hire training is necessary. The more background knowledge new hires have about how one workgroup interrelates with ancillary departments, the more new hires will understand his or her impact on the company. Benefits of new hire training:

• Reduce new-hires’ fears.
• Increase the understanding of company, such as culture, company structure, etc.
• Increase new hires productivity.
• Reduce new employee turnover.

Training Content

Training new hires isn’t easy, yet it should not be left to chance. You should set down a complete training program for new hire training, including training content, training schedule, training effects assessment, etc. Generally, your new hire training program should provide the following contents:

• Company information introduction: culture, structure, product and service information, etc.
• Company rules and regulations, policies and procedures.
• Position description and requirements.
• Office applications operation training.

Besides these, provide company manual to new hires, it can be extra gifts for them to learn more about your company.

Evaluate new-hire training effectiveness

Evaluating new-hire training effectiveness is important to ensure improvements for the new-hire training courses and to monitor training standards in your company. Methods of assessment are different for various training contents.

For evaluating the training effects of company information introduction and company rules and regulations, policies and procedures, computer-based test is the first choice for assessment in terms of money-saving and time-saving. No papers printed, no pens needed, and no hand-marking work – all the quiz results are graded automatically after the quiz takers taking the test. For conducting computer-based test, QuizCreator is a good assistant which provides 9 question types with multimedia supported and 3 quiz results tracking options (E-mail tracking, QuizCreator Online tracking and LMS tracking). Another unique feature is that QuizCreator can generate insightful and direct analysis reports for quiz results. Then trainers can realize the weakness and reinforce the specified knowledge to the new hires.

For evaluating the training effects of position description and requirements, you can evaluate in the process of daily work and coach new hires instantly when they encounter trouble in order to make sure new hires to perform successfully in their new position.

For evaluating the training effects of office applications operation, assign appointed projects to new hires and evaluate the results they do and then correct their wrong operations according to their work.

Summary

To develop a great business, you need to begin all new-hires with an outstanding training experience and tap their potential in their work. A well planned new hire integration process has been proven to increase productivity and retention. By showing an upfront commitment to them, new hires will be confident in their decision to join your organization, motivated and equipped to produce their best work immediately, and more likely to stay. Invest in them early and they’ll stay longer.