Onboarding is an essential element of hiring a strong team because it allows companies to communicate their culture and expectations, as well as reaffirm new hires’ choices to join the organization.  2019 brought a bold new trend in technological advances that are already enhancing communication and collaboration as part of connected enterprise, and are primed to help deliver more robust onboarding in 2020. 
 
“Industry 4.0 is transforming business operations through data analytics and machine learning, but connectedness is what’s having the most direct effect on how C-Suites run their organizations,” explains executive search thought leader John Hodge, Managing Partner, Americas at Miramar Global.  “Executive teams need to take advantage of these new opportunities to improve their onboarding processes if their goal is building a sustainable team to drive their company’s success into the future.”
 
Hodge expects the following trends and topics to have the greatest impact on C-Suite hiring and onboarding in 2020:

• Connected Enterprise Increases Communication & Collaboration: Encouraging collaboration through chat and progress tracking apps can lead to stronger work product and personal bonds, especially with new hires.  The collaborative nature arising from this technology also helps to catch problems or mistakes quickly so they can be addressed faster, with further direction given if needed.
• Technology as an Aid in Recruiting, Hiring, Onboarding: When it’s time to hire a new team member, gauging priorities across the company helps focus the search strategy and determine the essential elements of a candidate profile.  New platforms and programs allow C-Suites to better standardize organizational expectations throughout the entire process to find candidates who are the best fit for skill and culture.
• Improving Employee Experience & Training with New Platforms: Connected Enterprise technology can put critical information from employee manuals and training programs at people’s fingertips, allowing the company to spend more time highlighting culture, operations, etc. from the very beginning.  They also create openings for the team to communicate what’s working and not with the executive team well beyond their onboarding window.
• Honing Performance Management through Data Analytics: Newly available data and its applications will likely have an impact on KPIs, meaning employees and those who manage them could be personally affected by a transformation that’s critical for your company.  Clarifying expectations during the transition, and goals for growth beyond, will help new executives become better leaders who can address this growth with confidence.
• Shared Ownership of Output: Helping the entire team develop their understanding of new technology & cultural initiatives leads them to feel more engaged with the company, making them more likely to perform at their peak.  Effective onboarding processes and Connected Enterprise tools increase the availability of information, and alongside a directive to seek ways to increase efficiency and reduce risk, will encourage employees to develop more thorough analytics and adapt for better solutions.

 
 
About Miramar Global
Miramar Global Executive Search was founded in 2009 in London England to provide CEO and C-Suite leadership for national and global enterprises in the science, engineering, industrial and technology sectors.  Distinguished by its technological innovation in executive search, the company conducts management analyses, executive search, on-boarding and other services.
 
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