Evaluating Onboarding In 2021 – eLearning Business
Evaluate onboarding
At the beginning, it is important for L&D experts to first assess the current status of their organization. It is also important to set the overall budget for L&D initiatives for the year. Once that is established, the final step is to identify the various eLearning options that these budgets can be allocated to. It should be noted that L&D teams have the only option of eLearning as traditional training does not seem to be making a comeback yet. Once all stakeholders have understood and accepted this, it is time to move on to the more complex aspects of moving to eLearning.
L&D teams need to determine the type of eLearning courses, the type of development partner, and ultimately the development schedules. All of this falls under the assessment process and is a must before planning an eLearning initiative.
Many view traditional onboarding as a simple meet and greet activity. They see onboarding as a gesture to make it easier for new employees to get into their jobs by introducing them to immediate teammates and other people at best. Even if part of it is true, the view of onboarding is still extremely limited. So when preparing for onboarding in 2021, keep in mind that there’s a lot more to it than just skimming the surface.
The 2021 onboarding process includes:
- Maximize onboarding activities through intensive practice while minimizing training requirements;
- Adjust wisely, but make sure they are updated with efficiency;
- Switch to onboarding webinars instead of seminars;
- Put a strong emphasis on designing compliance training that complies with the work-from-home policy; and,
- Remotely introduce new carpenters to team members and colleagues.
The 2021 onboarding game is about maximizing efficiency. L&D departments need to focus on identifying ways to reduce costs while maximizing training. eLearning is of great help in this case. However, evaluating the right e-learning provider, format, and workflow training could be a slight challenge, alongside securing opportunities and introducing new employees to their remote teammates.
Optimize onboarding
What actually is optimization? Optimization in the strict sense is the ability to improve current measures by examining and evaluating the results of previous measures. In simple terms, a process is first analyzed, areas for improvement determined, made available again and the latest results examined for further areas for improvement. Throughout the cycle of this process, costs need to decrease while performance increases, resulting in optimal conditions.
The term “optimization” is very important for L&D professionals in 2021. The pandemic has fallen out of favor with traditional practices. If we are considering changing our current training practices, the only option that remains is to move from traditional training to eLearning. For those who have already implemented eLearning, the only option is to optimize your onboarding.
How does the optimization process fit in with onboarding?
The talks about optimized onboarding in 2021 revolve around:
- Optimizing onboarding for employees remotely, possibly even around the world;
- Maximize customer loyalty by delivering a clear message to new remote employees about future plans;
- Optimizing the cost of effort and money, as eLearning is not entirely free from these costs – effort and finances are still part of eLearning. and,
- Collect remote ratings and feedback to plan better onboarding.
The streamlined onboarding in 2021 revolves around remote workers and their remote training needs, while at the same time carefully tracking and spending L&D budgets.
Mix onboarding
While combining the two aspects of onboarding, traditional and eLearning, is the best option, it cannot be done at this time. But don’t forget about blended onboarding. When things get back to normal, L&D teams need to try to tie the two formats together as this works best.
Mixing up onboarding is pretty easy. This includes:
- Division of the target areas into classroom activities and on-the-job training (OJT) and the rest into e-learning;
- Conducting assessments through the LMS as a result of a regular educational initiative;
- Providing digital certifications;
- Theoretical training on an LMS combined with practical OJT; and,
- Providing onboarding training for employees throughout their tenure.
It’s important to note that mixing onboarding right away is not practical. However, mixing up onboarding training in the future is the answer to your new hire’s problems with training. Therefore, the ability to combine them sensibly and deliver results is of the utmost importance to your training and development success.
eNyota Learning Inc.
We are a 14 year old company focused on delivering learning solutions to companies worldwide. Our customers include corporations, training, education and e-learning companies in the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
