By Doug Striker,
Ohhhhhhh, lookee there! It’s a fresh new crop of attorneys joining the firm! Aren’t they cute in their wide-eyed excitement over the cases they’ll handle, the team of Cracker Jack attorneys they’re joining, the new s
uits they bought…
But someone’s got to train them in the “Ways of The Firm.” And this process is seemingly endless because there are always new, wide-eyed attorneys walking in the door! To the HR and IT teams responsible for their care and feeding, this line of recruits can start to feel like the Zombie Apocalypse!
Free up their (your?) time with an automated on-boarding process so that these professionals can spend their time on things that advance the firm’s capabilities and vision.
How to Automate the On-Boarding Process
Below, I’m going to outline the steps you can take to automate your law firm’s on-boarding process. Use it as a handy checklist and, once you’ve reached the end, you’ll discover that your HR and IT people are much happier, more productive, strategically focused people.
- Get a Learning Management System (LMS)
If you don’t have one already, you need an LMS. Honestly, the LMS is the heartbeat of this entire automation process because a robust LMS can…
- Store all of your on-boarding training materials
- Enable your HR and IT teams to create learning pathways using that training content
- “Feed” these training materials to the new recruits in the proper order and pace
- Track each individual recruit’s achievements as they make their way through the materials
- Test each recruit’s knowledge
- Report on each recruit’s achievements and weaknesses
Imagine a day when your HR people could simply send
a link, username and password to each new recruit and say, “Complete this before your first day in the office. See you in two weeks!”
Then, the people who show up on their first day look less like the Zombie Apocalypse and more like attorneys ready to get to work.
- Training Content
If you don’t already have training content in the hopper, you’ll need to create it or buy it. Ideally, this content would be continuously updated and loaded automatically into your LMS. Oh, and make sure that your training program includes security awareness training so that your recruits don’t come in, click some spam and unleash ransomware on their first day. That would be a bad day.
Benefits of an Automated On-Boarding Process
- Consistency in materials covered by every recruit
- Speedier on-boarding
- Improved efficiency firm-wide
- HR and IT professionals who can focus their attention on weightier, more strategic tasks
Doug Striker is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Savvy Training & Consulting, a provider of legal software training solutions. As a former Chief Operating Officer of a prominent law firm, he specializes in helping firms acquire the software platforms they need, training staff for maximum workflow efficiency, and enhancing continuity and bottom-line results.
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