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"We have two simple questions for you:

1) How often do you hire new team members?
2) How FAST are your new employees ready to work on their own and contribute to the company?

If you can get the full stack employee in less than three months, congrats! You are HR and onboarding guru. Unfortunately, the rest of us are not. We usually need more time (up to six months) to successfully onboard the new team member and to get good results from them."

Read the full article to find out more about these 8 steps on how to make the welcoming process as pleasant as possible:

1. Make an announcement to the rest of the team that you are going to have a new team member.
2. Prepare new workstation and set up the computer for our new colleague few days before she arrives.
3. Make sure that your company culture document is up to date.
4. Have your procedures in writing.
5. Enable access to the internal Q&A section.
6. Write a welcome post on a day of new colleague's arrival.
7. First day at work - show her around and introduce her to the team.
8. One on one meeting with the CEO.

"Every organization must tackle onboarding new employees. It can be struggle to do this efficiently, especially lacking the proper processes and systems in place to perform the onboarding precisely and completely for each new employee. Most companies create an onboarding checklists, detailed documentation and of course, plenty of forms to onboard a new employee. But paper-based checklists, documents and forms get lost, become outdated and often end in rouge processes being executed by different departments.

Stop the madness! Streamline and organize your Employee Onboarding on your intranet to ensure each new employee is given the same onboarding experience, no required documents are overlooked and proper training/testing has taken place."

Read the full article to find out more about these five best practices to streamline your employee onboarding on your intranet:

1. Creating an Employee Onboarding Checklist Form
2. Instating Automated Employee Onboarding Workflows
3. Online Registration for New Employee Orientation
4. Deliver Employee Onboarding Forms & Tests Online
5. Feature New Employees on the Intranet Home Page

"An employee manual is a fixture of company culture, but just because it’s a fixture doesn’t mean it should follow a corporate formula. Bill Fisher, CEO of EF China and president of EF Digital Learning Labs, has transformed his company's manual into a wonderfully animated booklet that manages to get its points across (company values, expectations, goals, etc.) but with a playful, children's book-like design that employees have truly responded to."

Read the full article to see images of EF's employee manual.