Welcome to the Employee Onboarding Podcast, where we explore the best practices and innovative ideas from the world’s top HR professionals and thought leaders. The topic for this podcast: What really makes a successful onboarding process.

Today, we’ll be joined by Maxine Dorkin, a dynamic professional in the youth employment sector and currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. 

Maxine’s impressive journey includes managing work readiness programs that have impacted over 5,000 unemployed youth, extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, and a pivot into the technology space where she now excels in designing and facilitating onboarding programs.

Join us as we uncover Maxine’s insights on how to align personal values with organizational missions, the importance of community in the workplace, and strategies to enhance employee engagement and retention. 

This conversation provides practical takeaways for any HR professional looking to elevate their onboarding process.

Here’s what we’re going to cover in this episode:

• Introducing Maxine Dorkin
• A little about employee onboarding
• The key pieces to a successful onboarding experience
• Creating a sense of belonging
• The role of culture in onboarding
• Advice for HR professionals
• Creating lasting impressions

Let’s get started!

You can also listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, & all your favorite podcast platforms!

Colliers is a global commercial real estate company that helps its clients select corporate real estate, manage lease renewals, and handle portfolio strategies.

It’s a massive operation that requires an intense amount of organization and transparency to deliver the best services for its clients. One of the ways it accomplishes this is by using Process Street.

But how did Colliers come to use Process Street? And how has it helped transform its operations? We will answer those questions and more in this case study.

We’ll cover:

• The challenge
• The solution
• The results

If you want to learn more about how Process Street has helped Colliers, check out our video about it below:

Continue Reading

Welcome to the Employee Onboarding Podcast, where we dive into cutting-edge onboarding strategies and gain insights from HR leaders.

Today, we’re thrilled to be joined by Keisha Toussaint who is a seasoned HR professional crafting exceptional onboarding experiences.

With eight years of HR expertise and a master’s degree in human resource management, Keisha leads initiatives in learning and development, employee engagement, and relations at Betches.

She prioritizes honesty and transparency in onboarding and highlights the crucial role of managers in tailoring experiences to individual needs and preferences.

Here’s everything we’re going to cover in this episode:

• Introduction & an icebreaker question
• Crafting exceptional onboarding experiences with Keisha Toussaint
• The role of managers in shaping a welcoming environment
• The role of AI in onboarding
• Customizing onboarding experiences to individual needs

You can also listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, & all your favorite podcast platforms!

Cloud-based, paperless workflows are the future of office efficiency, while poorly indexed, illegible files are stuck firmly in the pre-SaaS era, where they belong. HR professionals take on a ton of different responsibilities throughout the day and deal with plenty of repetitive, complex tasks.

Relying on your own brain (as much as you’d want to think you can) and bits of paper stuck to your monitor just isn’t the way to get things done. Some businesses are still a little slow on the uptake, but it’s obvious that what we need is a smart, foolproof solution that is immune to the silly mistakes we’re so prone to making. That solution is software-as a-service (SaaS).

Let’s take a look at:

• Top 23 HR tools
• Benefits of using HR tools
• Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)
• Key features of HR tools
• How to choose an HR tool

In our 20th episode of the Employee Onboarding Podcast, we are honored to host Dr. Christina Moran, joining host Erin in an insightful conversation on employee onboarding and creating exceptional onboarding experiences.

Dr. Christina Moran is a licensed psychologist and an esteemed member of the leadership team at a renowned design architecture firm.

Together, they explore innovative ideas and best practices gleaned from Christina’s extensive expertise in people leadership, organizational effectiveness, and psychological research.

Join us as we unravel the essential elements that contribute to successful onboarding and learn valuable insights into prioritizing the human touch amidst evolving technological advancements.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Introducing Dr. Christina Moran
• Exploring Dr. Moran’s passions and interests
• Applying psychology to the workplace
• Elements of a great onboarding experience
• Productive onboarding and its downfalls
• Motivating colleagues for onboarding
• The starting point of onboarding
• Balancing AI with human touch
• Creating “wow moments” for new hires

Also listen on Apple, Spotify, Google, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, & all your favorite podcast platforms!

Ever envisioned a world where your onboarding process is powered by artificial intelligence or where complex tasks are seamlessly managed by sophisticated algorithms?

Join us for the latest episode of Process Street’s Employee Onboarding Podcast, where Erin engages in a conversation with Tarek Kamil, the founder of Cerkl, delving into the future of employee onboarding, the transformative potential of technology, and the ethical considerations surrounding AI.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Introducing Tarek Kamil: CEO and founder of Cerkl
• Exploring Tarek’s passion for technology and AI
• Implementing AI in employee onboarding
• Tarek’s journey and inspiration behind Cerkl
• The future of AI in employee engagement

You can listen on Apple, Spotify, Google, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, & all your favorite podcast platforms!

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, columnist, guest lecturer at Columbia University, and the Wall Street Journal’s bestselling author of Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. 

Nick is also the founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement the CPR business efficiency framework.

It’s the culmination of Nick’s unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation, which stems partly from the eight years he spent working as a high-efficiency trader on Wall Street.

In this episode of The Employee Onboarding Podcast from Process Street, Nick discusses:

• How operational efficiency saved Leverage from bankruptcy
• The key to successful onboarding
• Creating a “wow” moment for new hires
• Come Up for Air

You can listen on Apple, Spotify, Google, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, & all your favorite podcast platforms!

This is a big blog post about Business Process Management software (BPMS). If I’ve succeeded in doing what I set out to do, this article should provide pretty much everything you could ever need to know about BPM software.

At its core, the article is built around the following pillars of BPM software:

• Top BPM software
• BPM basics: The idea behind it
• BPM in practice: How to use it
• A glossary of BPM terms
• Use cases of BPM software
• Using Process Street for BPM

I have tried to distil the information in this article to only the most crucial elements, and many sections have been abbreviated where they deserve entire articles to themselves!

Thankfully, where necessary I have provided links to supporting material where these concepts are expanded upon, should you be interested in delving deeper.

Continue Reading

Today, we’re going to take a look at Improvizations, a workforce consulting firm that works with a huge variety of organizations to improve and automate their business processes. 

As part of our Solutions Partner program, CEO and founder of Improvizations Bryan deSilva engages his clients and gets them as excited as he is about continuous improvement. 

Together, we’ll dive into how Bryan and his team accomplishes this with Process Street, along with a bit about his own life and what gets him so excited about workflows. 

• What Improvizations specializes in
• What Bryan loves most about being a Solutions Partner
• The best part of Bryan’s job
• What Bryan does when he’s not building workflows

Ah, the days before I started using project management software.

I don’t miss them.

70+ hour weeks of pure stress and disorganized skitting from task to task, unable to focus on the things that mattered when they needed to get done. It was a lesson hard-learned but one of the most valuable I’ve ever had the misfortune of going through.

So I’ll save you the trouble and show you the best free options on offer.

You don’t need a massive budget or a lot of experience to get the most out of these apps – hence why they’re the best free project management software. Most have paid plans but all are functional with the free version and all will help you and your team organize your projects and get things done on time and to a high standard.

I’ll be covering:

1. Process Street
2. Agantty
3. Airtable
4. Asana
5. Avaza
6. Backlog
7. Bitrix24
8. FreedCamp
9. HiTask
10. KanbanFlow
11. MeisterTask
12. Paymo
13. Pivotal Tracker
14. Podio
15. TeamGantt
16. Toggl
17. Teamwork Projects
18. Todoist
19. Trello
20. Wrike
21. Zenkit
22. Jira
23. Hubstaff
24. Basecamp
25. ProjectLibre
26. Notion
27. Zoho Project
28. Kintone
29. nTask
30. Nifty

Enough talk – let’s get stuck in.