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Onboarding New Employees: Increase Retention and Performance

Learn how to optimize your onboarding process to enable new hires to be productive and efficient as soon as they start

Created byEvan Kimbrell
4.2
(34 reviews)
IntermediateUpdated May 17, 2025
Onboarding New Employees: Increase Retention and Performance

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the business impact of effective vs. poor onboarding.
check_circleBuild a structured and trackable onboarding process tailored to your team.
check_circleApply onboarding best practices for both in-office and remote employees.
check_circleEvaluate and improve your onboarding experience for long-term success.

About This Course

Did you know that your business could be throwing away at least $4,000 with each new hire if you have a poor onboarding process in place? On the other hand, when done right, an effective onboarding process can increase employee retention by 25%, improve employee performance by 11%, and, most surprisingly, can help keep more than 69% of employees with your company for 3 years or more!

In this course, we’re going to talk about how you can optimize your onboarding process in order to make sure that your new employees are excited, feel comfortable, and are both productive and efficient from day one. We’ll cover:

  • Why onboarding is such an important function within your business
  • Creating an onboarding checklist to organize and track progress during the onboarding process
  • Onboarding lessons you can apply from different industries
  • How to prepare your team for a new team member
  • Day one with your new hire and what to do if they’re a remote worker
  • Pairing your new hire with a mentor and other unique onboarding tactics
  • How to properly evaluate your onboarding process for adjustments and improvements
  • Beyond onboarding: How to support your new hire when they’re no longer “new”

By the end of this course, you’ll have everything you need to set up an onboarding process that effectively orients new hires and allows them to be productive and efficient as soon as they start.

Intended audience: HR professionals

Your Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
Evan Kimbrell

Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder

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Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. **My courses have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch** Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category. In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed.

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