Onboarding Training
Training is vital to the success of every organization. Richard Branson said, “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat (them?) well enough so they don’t want to.” Will Rogers reminded us, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
What is Onboarding Training?
Organizations often include training in their Onboarding process. Allen Interactions describes Onboarding Training, or more commonly, Onboarding, as follows,
“The Onboarding experience is the perfect time to fire up your newest employees. Sure, you need to give them the tools and knowledge they need to succeed, but reinforcing their decision to join your team and getting them excited to contribute is just as important. Take a professional and light-hearted approach because people learn more when relaxed.”
Onboarding can cover many topics, such as company culture, policies, procedures, and specific job-related tasks. It can reduce the time it new employees need to reach full productivity and increase employee retention by ensuring they feel appreciated, supported, and integrated into the company.
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Featured Case Study
Mary Kay Case Study
Mary Kay Revolutionizes Onboarding
Mary Kay, a leading multi-level marketing company in the beauty industry, needed a method for training beauty consultants with diverse needs and definitions of success. As the sixth-largest network marketing company globally, Mary Kay had over 3.5 million independent beauty consultants in more than 35 countries, each with unique training program requirements.
Using a microlearning approach crafted by Allen Interactions for customer-centric training, Mary Kay now offers a truly personalized, self-paced, and self-directed learning environment for onboarding their beauty sales consultants.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following:
90% engagement level
80% of beauty consultants complete the program
3.5 million learners (Beauty Consultants)
Mary Kay Revolutionizes Onboarding & Sales Enablement
Mary Kay, a large beauty multi-level marketing company, needed a way to train beauty consultants with a large variety of needs and perceptions of success.
Mary Kay wanted to increase the knowlege and skills of their consultants related to sales and customer service skills, company culture, motivation and determination, product knowledge, workflow, technolgogy and tools, team building, and incentives.
Click the video above to learn how we helped Mary Kay build a truly effective and unique learning solution.
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The Allen Expertise
Another significant differentiator is our SAVVY approach to program development. We typically spend two days listening to you describe and define everything pertinent to your challenges and needs, such as:
- Training outcomes in terms of employee satisfaction, retention, and productivity
- Workforce development and performance goals
- Infrastructure resources (how we can reach your employees)
- How you will measure, demonstrate, and report success
At Allen Interactions, our Onboarding programs are designed not just to teach but to transform.
We harness the power of immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and gamification to create engaging, interactive learning experiences. Combined with our proven methodologies, these cutting-edge tools ensure your sales team learns, retains, and applies new skills in real-world scenarios.
Our multidisciplinary team customizes each program to match your unique needs, blending technology with creatively tailored content for maximum impact.
Can An Allen Interactions Onboarding Solution Help You?
Onboarding training benefits both the employee and the organization. For employees, it helps build a sense of belonging, confidence, understanding, and engagement by providing them with the inspiration, resources, and support to succeed in their new roles.
Effective onboarding reduces turnover rates, improves job satisfaction, and boosts overall productivity for the organization. It ensures that employees align with the company’s values and expectations from the outset, leading to better performance and a more cohesive workplace.
How can Allen Interactions help my organization with Onboarding Training?
Allen Interactions has led the interactive online training field for decades, developing new technologies and training methodologies along the way. Over that time, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations like yours use training to create workforces that excel in their roles, from front-line customer service to exceptional sales performance to mastery of industry-specific fundamentals.
As part of our growth as a customer-focused company, we have developed, refined, and proven a comprehensive process that ensures we understand your needs, develop needs-based and goal-driven learning solutions, and then implement them inside your organization, training staff so they can confidently and fearlessly manage the solution.
Customer Testimonials
Allen Interactions created an extremely engaging, interactive sales process course, with complex interactions between sales associates and customers. This pilot resulted in some incredible results!
Kenneth Gregson
Director Variable Operations Learning & Performance, AutoNation
Customer Testimonials
Adults are looking for untraditional learning experiences. Coupled with innovations in core business strategies within, we had the perfect moment to create a seamless experience for the independent sales force with Allen Interactions.
Kathryn Hunt-Siwald
Manager, Sales Education Materials & Strategic Education, Mary Kay
Customer Testimonials
By incorporating fun, engaging content into the Penn Foster online learning experience offered by schools like Penn Foster, we belive our students will be better able to retain the information, not only for their exams, but to apply in the workforce and entirety of their careers as medical professionals.
Dara Warn
Chief Operating Officer, Penn Foster Education Group
How can Allen Interactions help implement Onboarding Training?
30+
Years of Innovation
1300+
Clients Served
200K+
Custom Interactions
500+
Awards Received
Why Work with Allen Interactions?
Our clients often say that we understand training development better than any other company they’ve met. We take that as high praise, indeed. But, we know that choosing a partner you’ll entrust to develop your mission-critical training solution requires us to demonstrate, to you and your team’s satisfaction, that an Allen Interactions eLearning Program will meet or exceed your expectations.
We encourage you to ask us (and everyone on your radar) to demonstrate capabilities in these critical areas:
Lead with listening
How do they ensure they understand your needs?
Proven track record
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Ability to customize a program
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Technology agnostic
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Scalable solutions
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Provide robust analytics
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Exceptional user interfaces
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Integration with your existing
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Support and training
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Quality, current, accurate, and
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Cost-effective with proven ROI
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