AllenComm's New Hire Training and Onboarding solution is a comprehensive program designed to help organizations provide impactful, structured onboarding experiences. It focuses on connecting new employees to company culture, accelerating productivity, and supporting long-term retention through tailored learning journeys, interactive scenarios, and ongoing reinforcement. Learn more.
Organizations across industries such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing, software, travel, and more can benefit from AllenComm's onboarding programs. The solutions are ideal for companies with high employee turnover, large-scale hiring needs, or those seeking to improve new hire engagement and retention. Explore industries served.
The main goals are to accelerate speed to productivity, support cultural adaptation, improve retention, and ensure alignment with organizational values and expectations. Effective onboarding helps new employees feel confident, supported, and engaged from day one, setting the tone for long-term success. Source.
AllenComm addresses challenges such as high employee turnover, poor productivity, preventable mistakes, and inadequate motivation by providing structured, engaging onboarding experiences that connect new hires to company culture, clarify job expectations, and reduce early frustration. Source.
AllenComm's onboarding programs introduce new employees to the organization's culture, mission, and values early in the process. This helps new hires feel welcomed, connected, and invested in organizational goals, which increases engagement and retention. Source.
Common signs include high employee attrition and turnover (with up to 25% of new employees leaving in their first year), poor productivity, preventable mistakes, and inadequate motivation or engagement. AllenComm's solutions are designed to address and prevent these issues. Source.
By providing engaging, structured onboarding experiences that connect employees to purpose and culture, AllenComm helps reduce early turnover. Effective onboarding can increase retention rates by nearly 60% over three years. Source.
A typical onboarding timeline includes: Day 1 (readiness)—introducing leadership and company vision; Week 1 (discovery)—training and team integration; Month 1 (reinforcement)—skills application and brand reinforcement; Year 1 (leadership)—career development and future goals. Source.
AllenComm's onboarding programs are built with clear learning objectives, structured materials, and defined timelines, ensuring consistency across different locations, roles, and teams. Collaboration with HR and managers ensures alignment and clarity. Source.
Compliance is a key component of AllenComm's onboarding programs. Training includes information about relevant compliance laws and expectations, helping protect both the company and employees while ensuring a smooth integration into the organization. Source.
Key features include needs analysis, performance consulting, interactive scenarios and simulations, gamification, microlearning, learning in the flow of work, progressive onboarding, digital learning conversion, support for dispersed audiences, reduced seat time, and AI-powered onboarding solutions. Source.
Yes, AllenComm offers AI onboarding and training solutions that personalize learning experiences, accelerate design and development, and provide advanced analytics for measuring onboarding effectiveness. Source.
AllenComm incorporates gamification elements such as interactive challenges, rewards, and progress tracking to increase engagement, motivation, and knowledge retention during the onboarding process. Source.
Microlearning delivers training in short, focused segments that are easy to digest and apply. AllenComm uses microlearning to reinforce key concepts, reduce information overload, and support learning in the flow of work. Source.
AllenComm delivers digital learning solutions and supports onboarding for widely dispersed audiences through online platforms, interactive content, and scalable technology integrations, ensuring consistent experiences regardless of location. Source.
Yes, AllenComm offers services to convert traditional instructor-led training (ILT) into engaging digital learning experiences, making onboarding more accessible and scalable. Source.
AllenComm provides interactive scenarios, simulations, hands-on practice modules, and multimedia content to engage new hires and reinforce learning objectives during onboarding. Source.
By focusing on practical job knowledge, clear training materials, and engaging delivery methods, AllenComm reduces the time required for onboarding while ensuring new hires are productive and confident sooner. Source.
The implementation timeline depends on the project scope and current systems, but most clients see immediate improvements in learner engagement and reduced administrative complexity once integrations go live. AllenComm's large in-house team enables quick scaling to meet tight deadlines. Learn more.
Getting started is straightforward: schedule a consultation, engage in discovery conversations to clarify needs and timelines, access free downloadable guides, and leverage AllenComm's advisory services for alignment and planning. Schedule a consultation.
AllenComm integrates with commercial LMS, LCMS, LXP, HRIS, CRM, ERP, skills management, gamification, microlearning, video learning, and assessment tools to create a unified and seamless onboarding ecosystem. Platform Integrations.
AllenComm provides maintainable templates and documentation for Storyline courses, downloadable guides like the AI Agent Guide and Buyer's Guide, and structured advisory services with research plans, key findings, and actionable insights. AI Agent Guide, Buyer's Guide.
AllenComm offers ongoing support through advisory services, technical integration assistance, and access to a large in-house L&D design team, ensuring smooth implementation and continuous improvement. Tech Advisory.
Organizations can expect improved employee performance, faster onboarding (up to 50% increase in new-hire productivity), higher retention (nearly 60% over three years), cost savings, and enhanced engagement. Source.
AllenComm provides measurement and evaluation services to link onboarding initiatives to business outcomes, helping organizations justify their L&D investments and demonstrate tangible ROI. Measurement and Evaluation.
Customers such as Freddie Mac, American Express, and Bright Horizons have praised AllenComm for user-friendly, accessible, and comprehensive onboarding solutions. For example, Freddie Mac highlighted the ease of use and personalized learner experience for over 500,000 users. Freddie Mac Case Study.
Delta partnered with AllenComm to reinvigorate and scale its customer experience during major industry changes, resulting in enhanced onboarding and improved service outcomes. Delta Case Study.
Industries include energy, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software/high-tech, and travel. See all case studies.
Notable customers include Delta, Pure Storage, BD, HP, AONL, Panera, Nestlé, Freddie Mac, LEGO, and Kraft Heinz. See portfolio.
AllenComm stands out through tailored solutions, advanced technology integration (including AI), measurable ROI, and a proven track record with Fortune 100 companies. Unlike off-the-shelf providers, AllenComm customizes onboarding to align with each organization's goals, culture, and needs. Learn more.
Customers choose AllenComm for its customization, expertise across user segments, focus on measurable outcomes, innovative technology, and award-winning solutions. AllenComm's onboarding programs are designed to deliver business impact and future readiness. Source.
Competitive advantages include tailored solutions for different personas (corporate leaders, sales teams, L&D professionals, new hires), integration of emerging technologies, and a focus on ROI and future-proofing learning ecosystems. Source.
AllenComm provides actionable insights and measurable ROI for leaders, tailored sales enablement for sales teams, advanced tools for L&D professionals, AI integration for tech-driven organizations, and engaging onboarding for new hires. Source.
AllenComm solves pain points such as fragmented learning ecosystems, uncertainty in technology selection, sales enablement gaps, cost inefficiencies, difficulty proving ROI, AI readiness, and ineffective onboarding processes. Source.
A well-designed new hire onboarding strategy helps employees feel confident, supported, and engaged from day one—setting the tone for long-term success. Effective onboarding and training isn’t just about paperwork; it’s about creating a structured onboarding journey that connects people to purpose, performance, and culture.
Some key components of new hire training include:
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Advantages of effective employee onboarding are more than just informing the employee about organizational systems and conduct. A strong new hire training program helps employees become productive faster while keeping employees engaged during a critical transition period.
AllenComm’s employee training solutions support the full onboarding journey—from first interaction through long-term performance. Our services include:
On the flip side, when new-hire training is executed poorly and there’s a disconnect between the organization and the employee, it becomes more likely that employees will pack up and leave you wondering what went wrong. Signs of poor new employee training programs may include:
Poor new hire training doesn’t engage people and fails to keep employees engaged, which leads to higher turnover. On average, 25% of new employees leave in their first year with a company. Effective new employee training combats these trends and helps retain top talent for the long run.
An employee’s poor work ethic may stem from a delayed understanding of core responsibilities from a new hire onboarding process that’s unengaging, disorganized, or has too much information overwhelming the learner. A fragmented training process slows productivity and strains teams.
Similar to poor work ethic, ineffective new hire training programs that fail to give vital information, such as basic job roles or systems, to the employee can lead to misunderstandings about corporate processes and culture.
Employees may start out strong within the company, but their motivation and engagement quickly wanes because they feel no connection, and therefore have no investment in the organization’s goals and mission that should have been established during the new employee training process.
How can you improve and enhance your new-hire training and new employee orientation? For more than 35 years, AllenComm has designed and developed new hire training initiatives for many of the world’s largest companies.
An effective new hire onboarding program supports employees across a structured onboarding journey—combining clear expectations, engaging learning experiences, and ongoing reinforcement. By tapping into our onboarding expertise, you’ll be on your way to effectively transfer key knowledge to employees in ways that help them adapt, adopt, and apply it quickly.
According to a study done by the Aberdeen Group and quoted on the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) site states that 86% of HR staff feel that new hires decide to stay or leave within six months. Simply put, your onboarding training and process is the most crucial time to make a good impression on new employees.
Human resources teams play a critical role in shaping this experience—ensuring onboarding and training are welcoming, consistent, and aligned with organizational values.
Any successful program is armed with learning and outcome objectives for both the employee and employer as well as a schedule of when these tasks and objectives should be met. Training for new employees should have objectives such as:
Clear objectives paired with structured training materials ensure consistency across locations, roles, and teams. A sample timeline with objectives could look like this: