Training can be important for any company but there are ways that it can be effective and ineffective. Drawing from the Harvard Business Review article titled, “Your New Hires Won’t Succeed Unless You Onboard Them Properly” it suggests that new hires should be onboarded right away to ensure effectiveness and maximize employee performance. New hires that are onboarding through a process can help them learn behaviors and norms, increase productivity, and make them feel part of the team leading to overall success in the company. Emphasis on socialization allows the company to create an environment that is engaging and effective in the training process for new hires and can be observable to those who are onboarding.
I have experienced a successful onboarding process before in a company. I felt that this was effective and it showed in each of their employees including me. Through the onboarding process there were many organized steps that kept me feeling more and more comfortable and prepared for my position. I was welcomed to the team by several staff, not just HR and this made me feel that right away there was a community there for me making me feel more comfortable and valued in the company. The initial socialization process made for effective training when looking back on it and I can understand why the company prides themselves on their focus to provide learning and development opportunities.
Though I have experienced effective training, I have also received ineffective training. My experience with ineffective training was when I received training for a job and there was a huge emphasis on standardized training through online modules. This lacked personalization in my training and made me feel that there was not much support during the training process, leading me to be skeptical about what the company valued in the long run. While working for this company it felt that I wasn’t set up for success and that I was feeling unsupported in the workspace.
Sources:
https://hbr.org/2017/06/your-new-hires-wont-succeed-unless-you-onboard-them-properly