Creative Instructional Design: Featuring 3 Innovative Onboarding And Induction Examples - EIDesign

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Creative Instructional Design Featuring 3
Innovative Onboarding And Induction Examples
Part of Innovative Solutions Series Presented by
Author-Asha Pandey Chief Learning Strategist, EI
Design apandey_at_eidesign.net
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Creative Instructional Design Featuring 3
Innovative Onboarding And
Induction Examples
All of us are aware of the impact of
well-designed onboarding and induction programs.
Today, several organizations prefer an
eLearning-based approach to deliver them. They
seek learning strategies that can deliver high
impact programs that can induct new team members
quickly and efficiently. With changes in learner
demographics that now include Millennials in
significant numbers, organizations are looking
at more engaging and immersive formats that
appeal to this profile.
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3 Innovative Onboarding And Induction Examples Of
Creative Instructional Design
In this article, I will outline sticky learning
designs featuring the creative Instructional
Design approaches through 3 examples. These
examples feature learning strategies ranging
from gamification to active learning and the
more recent microlearning (uses video-based
nuggets and guided exploration). I have picked
these examples from diverse industry verticals
like Insurance, Oil and Gas, and eLearning.
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What Are The Advantages Of Well-Designed
Onboarding And Induction Programs?
Well-designed onboarding and induction programs
provide new team members with a quick
understanding of their role and what the
organization/employer expects from them.
Investment in such programs results in a shorter
learning curve owing to quicker and better
comprehension of the required knowledge and
skills, faster coordination, interaction, and
communication with others when compared to
achieving of these objectives without a program.
Effective onboarding and induction programs also
enhance the productivity of employees in a
company in a short span saving the organization
the trouble of waiting for the new employees to
familiarize themselves with their jobs. They
also prove beneficial in reducing lower employee
turnover due to lack of information or clarity
in expectations.
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What Learning Approaches Can Enhance The Impact
Of Onboarding And Induction Programs?

• In the last 13 years, we have created hundreds
  of onboarding and induction eLearning and mobile
  learning or mLearning courses. Over the last
  year particularly, there is a clear shift towards
  responsive designs to offer these programs on
  tablets and smartphones.
• I have selected 3 onboarding and induction
  examples that use very different learning
  strategies
• Gamification.
• Active learning.
• Microlearning nuggets (extensive usage of videos
  and guided exploration).

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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 1 Gamification (Industry Vertical -
Insurance) This is my favorite example that
showcases how you can use gamification for an
induction program. We chose the 100 days
onboarding and induction plan to map to a theme
of a mission that needed learners to clear
various levels within the stipulated time. It
also had leaderboards to enable them to assess
how they are faring against the other team
members.
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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 1 Gamification (Industry Vertical -
Insurance) You can also refer to my earlier
article What Are The Benefits Of mLearning?
Featuring 5 Killer Examples where this example
had appeared first.
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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 2 Active Learning (Industry Vertical -
Oil And Gas) This example features
industry-specific, high impact visuals. Our
customer needed to train their globally spread
out workforce from different geographies,
different cultures, and of course varied age
groups. We felt the thread of the specific
industry-based visuals would be the right
approach to engage all employees in spite of
this diversity.
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Onboarding And Induction Examples

• Example 3 Microlearning (Featuring Video-Based
  Nuggets) And Guided Exploration (Industry
  Vertical
• - eLearning)
• This example is from our own onboarding and
  induction program. This features microlearning
  media pieces (largely videos) and guided
  exploration through very simple and intuitive
  interactivities. Action images of team members
  and video nuggets make the learning interesting,
  sticky, and easy to internalize.

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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 3 Microlearning (Featuring Video-Based
Nuggets) And Guided Exploration (Industry
Vertical - eLearning) New team members are
enrolled to the onboarding and induction program
on day 1 of joining with the flexibility to
access it on the device of their choice. The
course uses a responsive design and can be
accessed on tablets and smartphones as well. The
average age in our organization is 28 and we
have taken this approach (videos, microlearning,
learning path that can be customized, and so on)
that appeals to this age group. We have used
photographs of our facility, our team members,
and our advisors so that new team members can
easily connect and get integrated into the
organization.
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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 3 Microlearning (Featuring Video-Based
Nuggets) And Guided Exploration (Industry
Vertical - eLearning)
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Onboarding And Induction Examples
Example 3 Microlearning (Featuring Video-Based
Nuggets) And Guided Exploration (Industry
Vertical - eLearning)
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What Learning Approaches Can Enhance The Impact
Of Onboarding And Induction Programs?
I hope this article helps you visualize how you
can enhance your existing onboarding and
induction program. At EI Design, we have a wide
range of custom solutions that can create high
impact eLearning and mLearning programs for any
industry vertical. Each of these uses creative
Instructional Design approaches that make the
learning stick. Do contact us if you have any
questions.
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Asha Pandey, CMD and Chief Learning Strategist
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