Time To Productivity: How Onboarding Improves It

When a talent resumes a new role at a company, they’re eager to jump into work. Often, the onboarding structure at the organization accelerates or delays their time to productivity — how long it takes them to make an initial productive contribution.

Your employees decide their commitment within their first six months in a new role. When the onboarding experience is great, employees understand their productive tasks and how to get them done.

A major way to reduce time to productivity is by ensuring that during onboarding, new employees have access to the tools, resources, and knowledge they need.

Here are a few things an employee anticipates when they accept an offer letter to work with you:

• Access to All Company’s Tools. Before a new employee resumes, spend time setting up tools that speed up communication, organization, such as Slack, Google Workspace, Trello, Microsoft teams, and other efficiency-improving tools. Businesses that use onboarding software like Onboardly can integrate these tools with a click during onboarding.
• Clear Expectations and Defined KPIs. What do you expect within their first 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days? You don’t have to follow this format, but outlining deliverables introduces direction to a new employee’s role. It informs that they’re not just working in a role, they’re contributing to achieving the company’s goal.
• Connections to The Workplace. Explain how the company works, who is responsible for what, and who reports to who. Save your employees hours of confusion and uncertainty. At Onboardly, our README feature allows employees to define and describe their work ethics, responsibilities, and preferences, ensuring employees improve workplace communication in less time.
• Discussing Company’s Culture. Are there policies or rules that make your company unique? This is the period to talk about them. Don’t assume anything is unimportant. Do you prefer Asana to Trello for project management? Mention them.
• Assigning Productive Tasks. New roles may require some training to get an employee up to speed, but a training period doesn’t stop them from doing productive work. Besides, the best form of learning is doing. Don’t just give them filler tasks, assign them realistic goals and evaluate their performance using metrics and numbers. This will boost their confidence and point out areas of improvement.

Tying It Together

A short time to productivity indicates that you’re getting it all well. The recruiters are sourcing the right talents. The interviews are meeting the talents’ expectations. The employees are forward-thinking and a good fit for the company’s culture.

If the average TTP at your organization exceeds a week, you want to identify the causes of slag and fix them. Recruitment and onboarding can be a tedious process for many companies. Investing in onboarding software affords you extra hours of productivity and allows you to focus on the crucial work of keeping your employees happy.

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