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Find practical guides, checklists and articles for your next hiring, onboarding or learning project.
Employee onboarding checklist template
Download a free editable onboarding checklist with owners, deadlines and dependencies. Plan equipment, introductions, learning and check-ins beyond day one.
- People operations
Preboarding tips: prepare a new hire’s first day
Practical preboarding tips for welcome messages, equipment, introductions and first-week meetings. Make the start clear for your new employee.
- People operations
Onboarding buddy responsibilities
Define an onboarding buddy’s role, choose an available colleague and plan useful check-ins. Give both people clear responsibilities and a way to ask for help.
- People operations
What is employee onboarding?
Understand employee onboarding, what it covers before and after arrival, and how HR, managers and buddies share responsibility for the start.
- People operations
A manager's guide to onboarding new employees
Plan your part in onboarding as a manager: prepare learning, set early goals, make introductions and give feedback. Avoid information overload and one-way communication.
- People operations
- Learning and development
Candidate experience: make the hiring process clear
Improve candidate experience with clear job information, a usable application, organised interviews and timely updates. Ask candidates what was difficult to understand.
- Talent acquisition
Employer branding: align your message with the workplace
Build employer branding around the real workplace. Audit candidate and employee perceptions, define the employee value proposition and improve recruitment touchpoints.
- Talent acquisition
What is e-learning?
Understand e-learning, how digital content is created and delivered, and the roles of authoring tools and an LMS. Connect online material with practice and support.
- Learning and development
Microlearning: keep each activity focused on a useful goal
Plan microlearning as short, focused activities with a clear learning objective. Choose the format around the work and keep longer practice where the task needs it.
- Learning and development
Learning culture: make time, support and knowledge sharing practical
Build a learning culture with role-relevant plans, time to practise, manager support and knowledge sharing. Connect training with the work employees need to do.
- Learning and development
LMS buying guide
Choose an LMS with a testable learner journey, content governance checks, assessment evidence and full costs. Work through a fictional pilot before buying.
- Learning and development
- People operations
ATS buying guide
Choose an ATS with a testable buying brief, consistent vendor demos, migration checks and first-year costs. Work through a fictional supplier decision before rollout.
- Talent acquisition
- People operations
Guides and brochures
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