#on-boarding

The typical onboarding process will look similar for all businesses. You hire new staff, provide initial training, and then everyone settles into their roles. Interestingly, this is the first and last time many companies provide employee training. They’re given extensive training during the onboarding process to ensure they’re up to speed with everything in your business. At the same time, it’s an opportunity to provide health & safety training, etc.  Yet too many companies neglect on-the-job training. It’s crucial that you continuously train your employees as they stay with your business. Contrary to what you might believe, one bout of training when they’re hired isn’t enough to ensure optimal performance. To drive this point home, here’s why on-the-job training is so essential: 

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You're stuck recruiting coders if you don't have easy, visual workflow management tools. They are unable to grasp the underlying business process and are thus unsuitable for automating it.

 A workflow is a series of tasks that can be repeated to accomplish a particular purpose. Workflows automate daily processes in which workers complete a series of tasks regularly. Purchase orders, expense reports, time-off requests, and onboarding new employees are all made quick, fast, and painless with workflows. Here are four key features needed in a workflow system:

Instant, Powerful and Automatic Validation

Employees waste far too much time correcting irrelevant errors on forms, such as incomplete or incorrect data.

Validation features in software should help to avoid errors. Employees may use the time saved to do more critical jobs, such as assisting patients or working with students, rather than hunting down paperwork.

Notifications, Reminders

When a workflow process is delegated to a specific person or position, the system must notify that person or people. Almost every workflow management system lets you configure this notification, add links to perform common activities, and send it out automatically. Typically, this notice comes in the form of an email.

People in the real world, on the other hand, are inundated with letters. As a result, make sure your emails will include all the details concisely. The most important feature is to use dynamic fields from the workflow in your email, which means you should be able to build any component using form data.

Drag & Drop Form Design

It's a must to use drag and drop. Multi-column, tabbed, tabular, multi-page, and other advanced formats are not optional. Remember that real-world business types are long and complex – you'll need text fields, dropdowns, and checkboxes, to name a few elements. Tables, sections, attachments, and repeating objects are all essential in practice.

Without programming, you should be able to easily build forms that look fantastic and function for your business.

Zero Code Workflow Design

Request that your Finance department create a purchasing order workflow or that your HR department create a new employee onboarding workflow. That's just what you're looking for in a workflow management system: an easy-to-use, visual interface that anybody can use to create their own workflows.

Technology Tricks to Help Make Your New Startup Effective

Some small businesses are still able to survive without modern technology, but it’s becoming increasingly rare. Different forms of technology are actively used in most of today’s businesses and everything from new software to smartphone apps are used to get startup companies off the ground. During the startup process, you need these tools to make as few errors as possible. Learn a few tricks…

http://blog.harbinger-systems.com/2018/03/need-for-an-effective-contingent-workforce-management/

According to Appcues, 86% people don’t return to a mobile application after downloading and installing it for the first time. It means if you manage to get 100 people to download your mobile app, chances are, that 86 out of them will never use your app.

As the famous adage goes, “The first impression is the last impression”, it is indeed true for the mobile apps. An exceptional onboarding experience for your app helps you to make a lasting mark on the subconscious minds of your users.

What’s exactly is, mobile app onboarding?

Onboarding as a term, is quite popular within HR teams, as it refers to the process of integrating new employees into the organisation and familiarising them with the function and layout of the company.

That’s exactly what it means, for mobile apps too. The process of integrating new customers into the app ecosystem and familiarising them with the function and layout of the app. It consists of tactics and strategies to make that experience lasting and impressive.

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Here are some tips to create an exceptional mobile app onboarding experience for your users.

Easily accessible

The gateway to explore your app should be easy. Users generally find it unpleasing to input lots of information, just to be able to access an app. Social login is much easier for users and allows them to connect with their social accounts. Most of the successful apps require less information to log in and collect more information during the session.

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Your purpose

There are over 3 million apps currently running on Google Play Store, and over 2 million running on iOS App Store. To stand out among these, your app should provide a significant value to your users and that value proposition should be loud and clear for them. Users don’t like to go through the whole app, just to learn what your app’s all about and how’s it going to help them. The very first screen of your app should reveal the purpose of your app and how the app can provide them with a solution, entertainment or a benefit.

You must answer some of the common questions like, how your app can help simplify their problems. It is also essential to tell your users, how your app is different from those already present in the market, through simple and attractive graphics and animations.

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Learn by doing assistance

Users generally don’t like to go through a user manual to get to the main functionalities of an app, rather, they prefer to learn on their own, by exploring it. Providing them with short instructions, explaining the use and meaning of each icon through tooltips or hints, as they explore your app can be helpful.

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Progress and appreciation

As humans, we like to track our progress and be incentivised on achieving specific milestones. As your users go through the onboarding process, provide them with progress status using carousel dots or horizontal bars at the top so that they can know how far they’ve reached. Once they’re done, appreciate them with a success message, so that they have a sense of accomplishment and feel motivated to use it further.

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Anytime assistance

Don’t leave the users all to themselves after their onboarding. Ask them to get in touch with you anytime when they face problems. Users love to know, that you care for them.

You can provide them with live chat options or chatbots like, Natasha in Hike, who can guide and assist them like a friend if they face any issues or want to know something.