Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Benefits of Interactive Acculturation Onboarding

During training and development, the more tools you have at your disposal the better. Videos, audio, and other media are easy to integrate with a truly universal onboarding system. Of course, multi-media is just one of the features you can incorporate into our AllegroHR Acculturation Portal. You can also activate live chat. This is an ideal solution for organizations with employees at multiple locations.

Often, in-house HR experts are centralized at corporate headquarters. There may be an on-site HR rep available to handle basic inquiries. However, new hires often have questions that go beyond the knowledge level of an HR generalist. In the past, getting these queries answered correctly might take days of emailing back and forth through a traditional helpdesk.

Now, your freshly hired employees can speak with a benefits specialist or other experienced HR professional at your central location without any hassle. The conversation happens in real time so any clarifications and further questions can be handled in a single conversation. When new hires can get immediate, comprehensive answers to their questions, this builds trust and speeds the acculturation process.

Training Partners

Emerald Software Group's onboarding system provides a perfect interface with training and development programs at companies like ExecuTrain and i3Logic. Your new hires can access these company's excellent training classes through our acculturation portal using a single sign-on. You can choose the best combination of virtual orientation and interactive employee development modules to meet the needs of your workforce.

For example, you could select an ExecuTrain team building workshop. This might be used to introduce your new employees into the existing collaborative process within their department. Or, you could ask i3Logic to create a custom training program that quickly socializes workers who need to be integrated into your organization after an acquisition. Of course, if you already have an acculturation portal or ESS (employee self service) system in place, our software blends seamlessly with these options as well.

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