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Introducing the Four Weeks to Work Pre-boarding Playbook
With the increased pace of skills migrating and transitioning to new technologies and new digital workflows, the importance of quickly forging a strong link between the new employee and the...
Manage Digital Rip Currents with Pre-Hire Experiences
Anyone who lives along the coast (ocean, digital, or otherwise) knows that the first rule if you find yourself in a rip current, is don’t struggle. Only with insight, pre-knowledge, or experience...
Video Pre-boarding: Communicating Confidence and Culture
Joining a team already in motion requires new hires to rapidly onboard to have any chance of success. The digital economy is speeding transitions and transformations with increasing pressure on...
Introducing “Four Weeks to Work” New Hire Experience
A Pre-boarding Journey from Acceptance to First Day. Four Week to Work is a learning experience focused on pre-boarding where understanding, confidence, and momentum are critical for the initial...
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10 Features of Pre-boarding with PerStart
Utilizing the pre-boarding time window equips new hires with confidence and teaches them the fundamental values of your organization, which assist them through the onboarding transition faster and...
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What is Pre-boarding?
To ensure a new employee will be a successful, lasting member of your team, it is crucial to acknowledge the importance of onboarding, with a specific emphasis on pre-boarding. Onboarding is the time...
Understanding the Role of Story in Onboarding
Every new hire’s story is unique. They do not write their story to quit on day one, yet we know that four percent of new hires leave after a disastrous first day. They do not plan to leave within...
What Pixar Can Teach About Onboarding
Beyond skill and knowledge transfer during new hires’ first days, there are actions and behaviors that you can encourage in new hires, through preboarding and new hire experiences, that help them...
We’re Going to Hubweek Demo Day Startup 2017
We are excited to have been selected as one of the 100 innovative startups in Boston to showcase at Hubweek Demo Day 2017.
Should Digital Inclusion Be a Core Value?
Today, addressing digital transformation and digital inclusion through skills training effectively drop some employees, and new hires into a digital rip current. Those already digitally...
How Story Can Impact Onboarding
Can you possibly convey all the technical knowledge needed in the first weeks for full performance? Through onboarding? Should you even try?
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