“The New Hire”
By Justin Waggoner, Ph.D., Beef Systems Specialist
You have decided to bring a new person into your organization. How do you bring them on-board and get them up to speed with how your organization operates? Do you have a formal training process or do you simply put them to work and hope the new team member is a quick learner?
Regardless of the size of your business or operation, training new people is important. The onboarding process sets the new hire up for success from day one and is an essential component of employee retention. Some surveys suggest that approximately 30% of new hires will leave their current position within 6 months. Lack of job training or a poor on-boarding process are some of the most common reasons cited for leaving an organization. Good employees are hard to find. Creating a strategy for training new employees that teaches them how to do their job and how your business operates (including ethics, culture, etc.) is well worth the effort.
For more information, contact Justin Waggoner at jwaggon@ksu.edu.
