This guide provides best practices and templates for effective onboarding. The purpose is to provide onboarding information and tools that you can tweak and modify to meet the needs of your organization.

Onboarding and orientation are NOT the same. Orientation might occur on the first day or during the first week, to introduce new hires to policies and procedures. Onboarding is a process that socializes new employees to the organization and ensures they have the necessary skills and knowledge to become effective members of the organization.

Seven Benefits of Effective Onboarding

1. Engages employees early on.
2. Builds trust and alignment.
3. Encourages open communication from the start.
4. Builds your employment brand as a great place to work.
5. Fosters connection and relationships between employees.
6. Enables new employees to be productive faster.
7. Decreases turnover and increases employee satisfaction.

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