How can the right tools help direct selling companies successfully compete with the gig economy? Personalized, data-driven onboarding. She doesn’t have any prior experience in sales and works full-time as a swimming coach. Smooth onboarding tied to an individual’s needs and goals. Just-in-time support and personal guidelines. The rules of engaging distributors and customers have changed. MORE

Coach. aoutwater : Sr Director of Marketing for ADP DataCloud Big Data & Analytics (tweets are my own), youth baseball coach, Kayaker/Backpacker, Go Jumbos. DrJarikConrad : Author, keynote speaker, and executive coach. Now you really can have that great onboarding experience. MORE

No hiring costs: beyond the costs of the recruiter’s time, there’s advertising, management time spent interviewing, and onboarding and training costs. That way, employees can review the qualifications and competencies that are considered ideal for their desired future role. MORE

Now, you’re dealing with the cost of finding and onboarding new employees. You can implement a progressive discipline process, where you start with verbal coaching, then onto written counseling, and if things don’t change, it could lead to termination. MORE

Lack of consistency in the operational guidelines when management is constantly coming up with new ideas that sometimes might be confusing. Technical competencies should be trained and upgraded constantly, and skill gaps defined and filled. MORE

I believe that the time spent by a leader with his or her team members needs to be a mixture of formal time (in training, coaching, performance managing, etc.) Ross Clennett , High Performance Recruitment Coach. Ross Clennett , High Performance Recruitment Coach. MORE

With an unemployment rate hovering at or under four percent and increasing demand for employees with the right combination of soft skills and technical competencies to meet companies’ needs, the ability to attract, engage and retain employees has never been more top-of-mind. An employee who witnesses a senior, C-suite leader not following these guidelines should feel comfortable approaching them to say, “I’m sorry, but you need to hold onto the handrail here.” MORE

Now, you’re dealing with the cost of finding and onboarding new employees. Joan was given a verbal warning on March 10 referencing our policy on guidelines for appropriate conduct, which sets expectations on effective communication, maintaining a high degree of professionalism and respect for all employees at all times. The idea of behavior competencies can be implemented throughout the whole employment lifeline. Do you have a bad apple that’s spoiling the whole bunch? MORE

I was happy to see that professor Levy included a discussion about orientation training or onboarding in this chapter, under the training delivery section. I was delighted to find the topic of coaching also included. MORE