Onboarding and the Manager Continued

Wow! What a response we got from our last webinar, Onboarding and the Manager! Seems like many organizations are looking for information and answers as to how to include and engage the hiring managers in the onboarding experience.

We did a poll question in our sessions and asked the following question:

"What is your top challenge with onboarding and the managers in your organization?"

-65% of our respondents said that it's the fact that the hiring managers think it's HR's job to do onboarding

-25% said that their hiring managers don't have the time, tools or skills to do onboarding

-10% said the their managers are simply unengaged in onboarding

Very interesting results that perhaps speak to the long-standing gap between HR processes and the business.

We spent a lot of time discussing how to engage the managers to bridge this gap and came up with the following tips:

-Don’t focus on how “it should be”
-Demonstrate what’s in it for the hiring manager
-Focus on the business
-Keep your onboarding action high impact and relevant
-Start with hiring managers who “get it”

We are interested to hear your thoughts, suggestions and ideas on this topic!