Is your onboarding giving new starters the right start?

Onboarding can easily become a collection of forms, emails, introductions and tasks rather than a joined-up experience. When that happens, new starters can receive very different experiences depending on where they work or who their manager is.

Onboarding Reimagined could be right for you if you want to:

• Create a more consistent onboarding experience across your organisation
• Improve the experience from offer acceptance onwards
• Give managers greater clarity about their role in onboarding
• Make sure new starters receive the right information and support at the right time
• Strengthen early engagement and connection with your organisation
• Build in meaningful check-ins and feedback
• Create a clearer journey through to the end of probation
• Identify and remove gaps, duplication or unnecessary complexity

You only get one chance to make a great first impression. Great onboarding gives your new starters the best possible foundation to succeed.

What does Onboarding Reimagined involve?

We look at your current onboarding experience from offer acceptance through to the end of probation and work with you to redesign it around what new starters and managers need at each stage.

We could explore:

We use these insights to design a clear, joined-up onboarding journey with the right stages, touchpoints, responsibilities, check-ins and feedback built in.

The result is an onboarding experience that works for your organisation, your managers and, most importantly, your new starters.

What will you receive?

You’ll come away with a clear onboarding approach that gives your organisation and managers a practical framework for creating a consistent experience for every new starter.

The work includes:

• PeopleCore Onboarding Framework – setting out the overall approach to onboarding across your organisation
• Onboarding journey – mapping the experience from offer acceptance through to the end of probation
• Key stages and touchpoints – identifying what should happen and when
• Roles and responsibilities – clarifying what HR, managers and others are responsible for throughout the journey
• Check-ins and review points – building in meaningful conversations at the right stages
• Feedback approach – creating opportunities to understand and improve the new starter experience
• Implementation roadmap – setting out the practical steps and priorities for putting the redesigned approach in place

A better experience from the very beginning
You’ll have a clear framework that helps your organisation deliver a more consistent, engaging and effective onboarding experience from offer acceptance through to the end of probation.

How does it work?

We work with you to understand your current onboarding experience, identify what needs to change and design an approach that works for your organisation.

1. We understand your current approach
   We start by understanding how onboarding works today, what you already have in place and what you want to improve.
   
2. We gather insight
   We review relevant onboarding materials and speak with key stakeholders to understand the experience from different perspectives.
   
3. We map the current journey
   We look at what happens from offer acceptance through to the end of probation, identifying what works well and where there are gaps, inconsistencies or unnecessary complexity.
   
4. We redesign the onboarding journey
   PeopleCore develops a clearer, more joined-up approach with the right stages, touchpoints, responsibilities, check-ins and feedback built in.
   
5. We refine it with you
   We work through the proposed approach with you and make sure it is practical and right for your organisation.
   
6. We finalise your framework and implementation roadmap
   We finalise your PeopleCore Onboarding Framework and set out the priorities and practical steps for putting your redesigned onboarding approach into place.

How long does it take?
Onboarding Reimagined typically takes 3–4 weeks, depending on the complexity of your organisation, what you already have in place, stakeholder availability and the amount of existing onboarding material to review. We’ll agree the timetable with you at the outset.

Let’s scope your onboarding redesign

Every organisation’s onboarding experience is different, so we’ll start with a complimentary conversation to understand what you have in place and what you want to improve.

We’ll discuss:

Following the conversation, where there is enough information, we’ll provide a clear proposal setting out the recommended approach, scope, timeframe and cost. Where the requirement is more complex, we’ll confirm any further scoping needed before preparing your proposal.

From £5,500 + VAT

Your final price will depend on the scope and complexity of the work and will be confirmed before the project begins.

Good to know

Onboarding Reimagined focuses on creating a clear and consistent onboarding approach from offer acceptance through to the end of probation.

The work includes your PeopleCore Onboarding Framework, redesigned onboarding journey and implementation roadmap. The exact scope and level of detail will be agreed with you before the work begins.

The project does not include implementing the redesigned approach, configuring HR systems or producing every individual onboarding document, communication or training resource unless these are specifically included in the agreed scope.

What happens next is up to you. You can implement the redesigned onboarding approach within your organisation or ask PeopleCore to support you with specific elements of the implementation. There is no obligation to purchase further support.