Totara Recipe – How to onboard new hires effectively

Welcome to the first of our new Totara Recipe series!

We’re working with Totara to show you everything you need to cook up a storm with your Totara LMS and our first recipe is all about onboarding.

Onboarding employees can be time consuming and difficult. We’ve created a simple recipe that runs from the team introduction all the way through to the new hire’s first day. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to employee onboarding, but here are a few ingredients that can help.

Ingredients

• Onboarding plan
• Awareness: culture & values of the business
• Team introductions
• Compliance training
• Mentor in the process
• Access to systems
• Open mind and inquisitive attitude
• Social inclusion
• Reporting mechanism

Preparation

• Build out the onboarding process with HR/L&D stakeholders
• Share your video on company vision and values
• Set up LMS compliance training prior to start date

Method

• Meet the team
• Migrate valuable data/content over to your new LMS
• Training at the point of need
• Use gamification with badges, rewards or other fun ways of motivating your learners

Serve and enjoy!

• Instant productivity as your workforce knows how to perform the first exchange right after they onboard
• Efficiency as employees and partners to start to own tasks quickly or complete sales successfully
• Increased revenue as once your workforce is onboarded you will have more employees, working with you for longer, doing a better job

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