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Global New Employee Orientation Services Firm

Global New Employee Orientation Services Firm

Getting experienced new hires up to speed at a high growth professional services firm

Client Case Study

Global New Employee Orientation Services Firm – Situation
This fast-paced technology and consulting services firm partners with Fortune 1000 clients to build and deliver information technology solutions to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.

Over the past two years, their employee base has quadrupled in number to meet increased customer demands. The company expects this success and growth to continue and believes that a consistent and aligned culture and methodology is critical to sustaining high client and employee satisfaction.

The services firm wanted new employee orientation and onboarding to:

  • Decrease speed to productivity and time to ramp
  • Support 30% + employee growth rate per quarter effectively and efficiently
  • Build new employee engagement and branding
  • Drive client satisfaction

Complications

  • Global growth in 7 countries was stretching resources
  • Retaining the company culture during expansion
  • Getting qualified resources to fulfill increasing complex global client demands within a tight labor market

Approach

  1. Assess & Design
    Custom designed 5-day experiential new employee orientation program focused on administration/benefits, managing change and personal transitions, internal and external branding, company strategy, values, and value proposition, career development, business units, conflict management, project management, scope creep, problem solving, presentations, public speaking, decision making, meeting management, consulting, communication, teaming, solution selling, methodologies, technologies, politics, resources, mentoring, and strategic thinking.
  2. Pilot
    Piloted 4 sessions in California, Virginia, New York, and Germany.
  3. Continuous Improvement
    Incorporated feedback and lessons learned into design and delivery.
  4. Implementation
    Implemented over 150 5-day new employee orientation programs in North America and Europe for 2,500 new employees ranging from undergraduates to experienced and executive hires.

Compelling Design Features

  • Used real clients and real projects for simulations and case studies
  • Intranet and knowledge management system built to support entire process
  • Incorporated high-fidelity simulations for mixed levels, experience, functions, and nationalities
  • Performance test used executive team, real clients, and the rest of the company
  • Final day utilized outdoor experiential activities, ropes course, and letters to self to help drive team-building for future collaborations

Global New Employee Orientation Results

  • Scale
    Implemented 150+ 5-day interactive sessions in North America and Europe for over 2,500 new hires
  • Satisfaction
    97% new hire and hiring manager satisfaction
  • Speed to Productivity
    90% more effective employees faster – decreased speed to productivity from 6-9 months to 2-3 weeks
  • Client Satisfaction
    20%+ increase in client satisfaction and service levels
  • Time and money savings based upon utilization rates

Related Information

We hired LSA Global to design and deliver a customized outdoor experiential new employee orientation program for our recent group of MBA new hires.

The program reinforced WIPRO core values, helped to build relationships with fellow associates, and enhanced the group’s ability to operate successfully in the global world.

I definitely recommend LSA for effective employee onboarding of top talent.

Vishu Venkat, PHR
Talent Acquisition

We partnered with LSA to help custom design, deliver, and measure an advanced new employee on-boarding process. It was well thought out and bought into by sales leadership.  The combination of targeted sales tools, technology, coaching, performance plans, training, and reinforcement made all the difference.  The solution quantifiably improved new employee and hiring manager satisfaction and increased the speed to sales quota for new hires.

I would highly recommend LSA Global for any sales enablement team looking to increase the engagement and speed to productivity of their sales force. We are excited to implement the program globally as we continue to scale.

Rochana Golani
Director, Global Sales & Technical Field Enablement

I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with how successful the new employee on-boarding project was.

The end product is wonderful!  LSA has been great to work with.

I really appreciate all the flexibility, customer focus, and the high quality of deliverables.

Laurie Torres
Vice President of Human Resources

PDL

ServiceSource has relied on LSA Global’s expertise for a variety of core initiatives, from strategy design and implementation, to business sales skills, to sales coaching. We recently engaged LSA Global to create a competency matrix for our inside sales team that will serve as our roadmap for employee on-boarding, development, succession planning, and retention.

This critical project had a tight timeline with high visibility. LSA Global completed the deliverable ahead of schedule and surpassed our expectations.

PMO and Outside Sales Operations
Senior Vice President

Service Source

LSA Global has been a great partner in helping us move toward being “the leading developer of talent in the service performance management industry.”

I have engaged LSA to help develop best-in-class programs in the areas of: Executive On-boarding, Manager Training, Sales Training and Coaching, Employee Engagement, and Instructional Design.

They have consistently met or exceeded my (very) high expectations and are always responsive to my needs to increase performance, engagement, customer satisfaction, and sales growth.

Mike Normant
Senior Director, Training & Development

Service Source

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with LSA on the design and delivery of the experiential new employee on-boarding training.

I’ve been getting tons of positive unsolicited feedback.

You truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Steven Gray
US Enterprise Services

Congratulations on your pro-activity in establishing this program and developing such an effective New Employee Orientation course.

Farhat Ali
President and Chief Executive Office

Fujitsu

The customized new hire on-boarding process, coaching, tools, and measurement have provided a very useful structure and frame for the first 90-days for both me and our new hires.

It has been a very positive experience and will make it much easier to on-board my new hires in a way that makes sense for our unique sales strategy and culture.

Martyn Storey
Systems Engineer Manager

We held our 1st Year Academy for our new associates last week, and the critical segment that LSA helped us redesign went exceptionally well.

Their instructional design skills made it more relevant, more interactive, and more engaging.

We greatly appreciate what LSA did to help us greatly improve a key component of our program!

Larry Brown
Senior Manager, Training & Professional Development

The experiential New Employee Orientation was an incredible success for 2,500+ new hires over 4 years spread across the globe.

LSA partnered with us to create an innovative solution on very short notice and added a huge amount of value.

We could never have done it without their unmatched combination of expertise, professionalism, and creativity that aligned everything with our unique culture and growth strategy.

Even our executives and experienced hires were blown away!

Brenda Wagner
Founder and President

Proxicom

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