Employee Development is still an area that needs more investments from companies to ensure higher ROI and better performance. Supporting the employees in discovering their career paths does not only impact the individual, but also the organization. Often perceived as a bureaucratic action, the consequences of poor employee training results in lost revenue and inefficient talent acquisition.
Your competitive advantages, from an HR point of view, are strictly related to the type of rough talent you have in your team. You can always use the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator to get a few insights on the psychological preferences of your employees in terms of team roles, but the necessity of polishing that rough talent is absolutely mandatory. Nobody can expect a newly employed individual to reach the corporate objectives if he has no idea how to or has no support to do so. Therefore, at XWiki, we are very supportive when it comes to Employee Development.
Here are a couple of ideas that we use:
Mentoring
It doesn’t matter what size your company is, the only important thing is your will to provide support to those newly employed individuals. Mentoring or coaching sessions are one of the best ways to know what are the key strengths of a new employee. Furthermore, it’s easier to communicate the expectations and explain the level of quality you are looking for when you interact on a one-on-one basis. You can schedule these sessions using the meeting extension.
The application offers a calendar view helping you to overview the entire week and easily manage the upcoming meetings. If you want to see more details about a particular session, you simply click on it and find every piece of information there is about it.
This is how we manage the meetings
Onboarding
We use onboarding sessions to provide the new employees, the knowledge, the skills and the general feeling perceived as necessary to smoothly integrate. The HR department makes the general introductions, followed by a meeting with the department leader and the other colleagues.
This is the time when a new employee gets a deeper insight into the company's organization, the way of working, internal rules, practical information, as well as on the expectations we have. We use the calendar view to be able to avoid any conflicts.
We use the calendar view to have an overview of the day, week or even month.
Technical training
As XWiki is a complex technical software, we need all of our employees to have a basic level of tech understanding. In order to understand the general activities each department performs, the employees are encouraged to participate in different training sessions (either training related to the tools that we use or the ones related to the XWiki solutions).
A detailed view of the meeting application is being used so that we can have a structured, time-efficient meeting and check all the details concerning it.
Find out the structure of the meeting or any other details
Coping with a high amount of data that comes from the employee development process becomes easy with XWiki. The best solution is to drop the conventional ways and use the versatile character of XWiki. By adding applications from the store or create our own with App within Minutes, we are able to efficiently store candidates’ information, meanwhile analyzing the progress of the current employees. We are glad to be able to make decisions based on solid facts which improve the quality of the work and the overall morale in the organization.
Since the beginning, XWiki has been designed to satisfy a wide range of needs. The question is how do you use or plan on using XWiki to meet your HR needs?
George Nikolic
Marketing Specialist @ XWiki
