We hope all of you are safe in these unprecedented times for humanity.
We at Scrumconnect Consulting are growing in these difficult times too. Last week we did a remote onboarding of 11 people. Remote onboarding has its own challenges but was smooth to meet the 2 goals of onboarding:
1. Individuals: Being able to contribute to the team fast
2. Team and Client: Add value and reach performing mode as soon as possible
1. Good start to onboarding session that helped the new consultants acclimatised very quickly by our Innovations Game coach- Nel Mathams
2. Clearly laid out onboarding pack by our CTO Mark Hunter and people manager Natalie-Rose Joseph :
We catalogued the most important onboarding information; create an onboarding checklist; institute a “buddy” to onboard new people to the team.
3. A clear understanding of vision, why the work is done, the lay of the land, both from the technical and business perspective by Mark Hunter and Mahesh Subramanian
4. Scrumconnect Charter detailing general behaviours we expect from Scrumconnect Consulting consultants on client projects
5. Buddy system for the initial week or so to ease the transition into the team
6. Pairing with existing team members is the most effective way, also individuals picking up a bug to fix is one of effective way for the individual to understand the deployment process and lifecycle within the client environment.
Some of the quotes by consultants who onboarded
“One of the best onboarding session I have seen in the last 15 years of my IT consultancy”
“I am really pleased with the onboarding process, we have been given all the required information to hit the ground running, thank you for everything”.
“The onboarding this week was challenging being online, but we all came through together as a team, this is a testament to Scrumconnect’s reputation. We found the session very helpful and felt apart of the team straight away”.
“The process from start to finish was very quick. The onboarding this week was challenging being online, but we all came through together as a team, this is a testament to Scrumconnect’s reputation. We found the session very helpful and felt apart of the team straight away”.
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