"I was deleting 24 Google Calendar placeholders one day and manually copy/pasting new hire email addresses into the 17 ones we were going to keep. It was at least 30 minutes of hundreds of just mindless clicks. And I said, wait a minute. I'm gonna figure out how to do this [better]. So I looked at our Google Calendar integration, saw that I could both delete calendar events and add participants to calendar events. It worked so well. I took hundreds of clicks down to two clicks to complete those two actions, which is huge for me. And then I said, what else can I automate? So I just kept going from there."
Ashley Priebe Brown, Onboarding Manager, Zapier
We're Only Human -- Episode 160
Onboarding is one of the most critical moments in the employee experience. The latest data from Lighthouse Research & Advisory shows that two out of three new hires know if they will stay at a company within the first week on the job. But that's not all. There are so many transactional, repetitive tasks that it's easy to get bogged down as an HR leader. In this episode of We're Only Human, Ashley Priebe Brown from Zapier talks about how she automated hundreds of hours of onboarding tasks, minimizing busy work and maximizing impact on their new hire cohorts. If you are looking for ideas on how to streamline your onboarding and make it more relevant and useful, this episode is for you.
Show NotesHuman Benefits for a Human Workforce with Maribeth Bearfield on We're Only Human
Stop Anonymizing Employee Feedback--Insights from Joyous on We're Only Human
Introversion-The HR Super Power with Tim Gardner on We're Only Human
Hire Internal Employees to Drive Engagement and Career Ownership with Jerome Ternynck on We're Only Human
Owning HR's Cybersecurity Responsibilities with Erika Lance on We're Only Human
Connecting Healthcare Operations and Recruiting at Mercy on We're Only Human
Making Magic for Candidates with Paradox.ai on We're Only Human
3 Keys to Creating and Becoming a Best Place to Work: Angie Redmon on We're Only Human
What is the Extended Workforce? Insights from Utmost on We're Only Human
HR Analyst Day *Podcast Takeover* Featuring Engagedly on We're Only Human
Engaging a Field-Based Workforce-Lessons from Nussbaum Transportation on We're Only Human
Empowering Your Internal Experts for Better Learning Outcomes on We're Only Human
Measuring Productivity in the Modern Workplace: Prodoscore on We're Only Human
Mediocrity, Clarity, and Personal Brand with Carla Patton on We're Only Human
How Paypal Maps and Creates Employee Journeys on We're Only Human
Ashley Furniture Saved ~$5 Million with Employee Retention: Featuring Humantelligence on We're Only Human
How to Drive Business Innovation from Within HR on We're Only Human
How Do I Support a Remote Work Culture? A Q&A Episode on We're Only Human
How Takeda Radically Transformed Its HR Operating Model on We're Only Human
Why Learning is the Superpower We All Need: The Upskilling Imperative on We're Only Human
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