{"id":15869,"date":"2020-06-12T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/?p=15869"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:52:08","slug":"reboarding-your-employees-7-tips-to-improve-their-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/blog\/reboarding-your-employees-7-tips-to-improve-their-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboarding your employees: 7 tips to improve their experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two ways to look at reboarding your employees: this could be a pain in the backside, or this is an opportunity to re-engage your staff and change how you work for the better. Disclaimer, there\u2019s no guarantee that option two won\u2019t be painful at times, but it\u2019ll certainly be worthwhile!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Common reboarding scenarios<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ll likely be operating in two scenarios, or perhaps a mixture of both.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employees are returning to work after a break, such as a furlough period.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your staff have been working remotely and you\u2019re preparing for a physical return.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of which, it\u2019s important to remember things have changed. People\u2019s perspectives might be different, their priorities will have altered, and your office is also going to be a different space\u2014literally and metaphorically. Either way, the below tips will help you reintegrate employees into your post-COVID workplace as well as returns from parental leave, medical absences and anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Tips for successfully reboarding your employees<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Return to work interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re not simply picking up where you left off, so it\u2019s important to reconnect with your employees well in advance of their return. It\u2019s your chance to update them but, more importantly, to understand their thoughts and concerns. Once you\u2019ve discussed these issues, you can reflect them in your reboarding plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask them what they\u2019ve missed about working or the office, what they would change about it, and how they feel you can be more effective in the future. If you can address these before they return, it\u2019ll be much smoother for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Communicate often and transparently<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being open with reboarding employees is probably the best way to build trust. Set the expectations, explain the timelines for returning to work and keep them in the loop with anything that changes. While employees must have access to reboarding information in one place, it\u2019s not wise to overwhelm them by delivering it all once. An <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/\">intelligent learning platform<\/a> like HowNow enables you to bring all your information together in one place while scheduling its delivery to your selected audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Encourage them to buy back into the vision and culture<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you were <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/onboarding\/\">onboarding a brand new employee<\/a>, you\u2019d introduce the vision, value and why of the company, right? Reboarders don\u2019t need the full version of this, but it is an excellent chance to reconnect them with the mission and remind them of the values that brought them to your door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Limit the screen time<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s official, \u2018Zoom fatigue\u2019 is a real thing! Keep that in mind when you\u2019re planning your updates, there\u2019s no chance anybody is going to get excited about eight-hour virtual training sessions or webinar-style town halls. Face-to-face interactions are what the majority of people have missed, so tap into their enthusiasm for connecting without their camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Focus on social connections<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c41% of Britons say the thing they miss most about not being on site is the office jokes and light-hearted banter.\u201d, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/newscentre.vodafone.co.uk\/news\/what-are-brits-missing-most-now-many-are-working-from-home\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Vodafone study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> revealed at the beginning of April 2020. Months have passed since and the cravings for some office fun will have only grown, so make sure you set aside time for social engagement and human connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Make resources available online<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your employees might need a refresher in some areas, or there might be a new skill they need to learn as they return to work. It\u2019s important to make these available and give them the freedom to learn at their own pace. What\u2019s even more effective is to give them access where they\u2019re already working, so that they can tap into these resources as they learn new skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Update your content<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before you do unleash all of your resources, you should audit them and update any that need adapting to reflect the new ways of working.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Can HowNow help with your reboarding process?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re searching for a platform that connects all of your employees with the resources they need to reboard effectively, then we\u2019re here to help! Get in touch and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/trial\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trial HowNow for free<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two ways to look at reboarding your employees: this could be a pain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":15870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3116],"tags":[1596,1597],"yst_prominent_words":[1617,722,279,1180,12,13,1616,1615,1612,535,789,1614,1620,1613,1619,280,1293,1618,10,937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18978,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/18978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.liquid-themes.com\/hownow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}