Employee Onboarding: How to Keep Great People After You Hire Them

Send us Fan MailFinding the right employee can take months. Why would you then leave their success and their decision to stay to chance?In this solo episode, Peter Boolkah explains why recruitment is only the beginning of building a successful team. Without a structured onboarding process, even a talented new employee can feel confused, unsupported and disconnected from the business.Peter explores how culture-led onboarding helps employees understand the organisation they have joined, what is expected of them and how they can succeed.Drawing on examples from two manufacturing businesses, he explains how structured induction, a 12-week development plan, regular touchpoints and multilingual support helped improve employee engagement and retention.You’ll discover:Why recruiting good people can take several monthsHow poor onboarding wastes that investmentWhy onboarding involves more than completing first-day paperworkWhat culture-led onboarding looks likeHow to build a 12-week onboarding flight planWhy new employees need regular touchpoints during probationHow inclusive, multilingual onboarding can improve engagementWhy the onboarding process must reflect the needs of the businessHow better onboarding helps employees stay and succeedGreat recruitment gets someone through the door. Great onboarding gives them a reason to stay.To review the onboarding process inside your own business, visit Boolkah.com and get in touch.CONNECT WITH PETER BOOLKAHWebsite: https://www.boolkah.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boolkahInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pboolkah/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoolkahX: https://twitter.com/boolkahABOUT PETER BOOLKAHPeter Boolkah is a business coach, author and speaker who has spent more than 20 years helping business owners build stronger, more valuable businesses that do not depend on them for everything.He is the creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap® and author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life.Peter works with founders and leadership teams on the issues that ultimately determine whether a business creates freedom or becomes another job: leadership, founder dependency, people, profit, execution, scaling, exit readiness and enterprise value.His approach is direct, practical and built around one simple question:Do you own the business, or does the business own you?Learn more at https://www.boolkah.com