Employees who experience a poor onboarding experience are significantly more likely to feel disengaged at work and, according to Gallup, can cost organisations approximately 18% of their salary.
Poor onboarding can result in a number of negative outcomes for teams including:
Establishing a standardised onboarding process contributes significantly to employee productivity and retention. According to BambooHR onboarding stats, employees who had effective onboarding feel up to 18x more commitment to their workplace, compared to employees who feel their onboarding was less effective. Through an effective onboarding program, organisations can engage employees from the outset to build trust and alignment.
In this article, we share information about how a knowledge management system, like KnowledgeIQ, can improve your onboarding process to engage and empower new staff.
Here's what we will cover:
When onboarding new employees, seamless access to relevant information is critical. By ensuring that your new team members can easily access the information they need, you empower them to do their tasks effectively right from the start.
With a dynamic knowledge management software platform like KnowledgeIQ, onboard contact centre staff by providing easy access to information such as guidelines, customer data, insights and useful business information.
Hopefully, new staff have a lot of questions during the onboarding process. Supporting this interest and enthusiasm with the ability to self serve supports initiative, ownership and ensures that staff are accessing the most up-to-date information from a centralised “source of truth”. This is also valuable in today’s hybrid work environments to keep agents connected with the latest knowledge and information from wherever they may be working.
Self service is a key benefit of KnowledgeIQ which includes powerful features such as search and the ability to create content categories. This makes it easier for new staff to find the training materials and information they need. Users can also bookmark content for easy navigation when needed, saving time and supporting quality outcomes and interactions.
Often new staff are required to read and understand a significant amount of information during their orientation and onboarding. While this is critical for them to understand the organisation and customers to be successful in their roles, it can be overwhelming and result in new staff spending a considerable amount of time searching for information.
Enabling automation of access to business processes, such as policies, education and video training, with a knowledge management system ensures new staff are customer-facing confidently and quickly.
Onboarding processes can sometimes be dry, which can make it challenging to keep your new staff engaged. This can result in an increased risk of new hires leaving your organisation, meaning escalating recruitment costs for organisations.
With KnowledgeIQ, maintain engagement for new staff with interactive onboarding with:
New hires often feel nervous when starting a new role. Organisations that do not provide a structured onboarding plan for their arrival can create a negative perception, increasing the risk of the employee questioning their decision to join.
A knowledge management system can form an important part of a successful onboarding plan with the following functions:
Accelerate the onboarding process, build confidence and connection to your organisation, and improve time-to-productivity for new staff with KnowledgeIQ. Contact us and one of our experienced team members will be in touch.
