Training is crucial to employee progress, competitiveness, and retention. But even before the events of the recent year, training and onboarding were...
Training is crucial to employee progress, competitiveness, and retention. But even before the events of the recent year, training and onboarding were not easy tasks.
For example, Jeff is the Director of Training & Onboarding at a mid-sized financial services company. Overseeing communications and education across staff was never an easy task, with advisors frequently in the field or not at their desks. That became exacerbated in 2020. Suddenly, Jeff needs to maintain professional development for a sizable team of employees, many of whom don't see the inside of head office.
As the economy rebounds, the company also grows significantly and hiring picks up. But recruiting new prospects virtually is one thing; making sure they are up-to-speed on company policies and procedures and adopting corporate culture in this environment is something he was never prepared for.
His challenge is to figure out how to onboard a rapidly expanding employee base, while maintaining ongoing employee development programs across multiple remote locations. And in a world where travel restrictions change daily or are cost-prohibitive.
Traditional methods of collaboration — often limited to an endless e-mail thread — prove ineffective in handling the onboarding of new employees. New hire documents, constantly being updated, become lost or ignored in the dreaded e-mail chain, while ironically the new workforce eschews email for speedier short-form chat.
This guide aims to arm HR managers like you and Jeff with the tools and tips that will help put in place effective training and development programs for today's evolving hybrid workforce through Microsoft Teams best practices.
Training the Hybrid Workforce of Today
Improving Training and Development with Microsoft Teams
Optimizing Onboarding and Professional Development with Microsoft Teams
Data Labeling
Everyone Presents
Ongoing Alerts
Company-wide Communications
Poll Creation
Tips and Tricks to Master Microsoft Teams
Develop Best Practices Early
Speed Access to Critical Info with File Tabs
Keep it Clean and Updated
Make Training Mandatory
Integrations and APIs
Better Together: How SHI Complements Microsoft Teams
