One of the best tools to help with the assimilation of new hires is an organizational chart. Confused? Here are five practical ways in which organizational charts lead to effective employee onboarding:
1. There’s No Faster Way to Introduce Organizational Structure
When you use organizational charts with HR tools like Freshteam, your new hires get a quick one-page view of the whole organization. You can introduce them to leaders at multiple levels, show them team structures and reporting relationships, and help them see their own team members and what they do — all in a single org chart. There is simply no faster way to do it. Here’s a quick peek into Freshteam’s org chart. The chart fleshes out to show you managers, teammates, and direct reports as you navigate through different employees.
2. New Hires Can Get to Know Their Teams Even Before Meeting Them
Once they’ve navigated to their team on the chart, a new hire can spend a few minutes getting to know every person on the team and what they do. Your new hires might even be able to pick up a detail or two about their colleagues that could be potential conversation starters when they finally get to connect with their teammates virtually or in person. Understanding people and the work they do also enables new hires to reach out to the right people whenever they need support, right from day one. No more wasting time asking around or shooting emails to the wrong people!
3. Organizational Charts Give Remotely Onboarded Employees a Visual Tour of the Company
Assimilating a new employee into any organization is hard enough, and it can be even harder when onboarding remotely. Organizational charts make the job so much easier. The employee profile information stored in the org charts can introduce your leaders and teams to your new hires, irrespective of their geographical locations, functions, or titles. Org charts provide not only the names, but also happy faces to go with them. While working remotely, new hires can quickly look up any colleague’s contact information whenever they need it, thanks to the org chart...