Top Content Providers For Employee Onboarding (2023 Update)

Highlights

• Improve New Hire Experience

Leverage their L&D Advisory services to enhance existing onboarding trainings and improve learner experience, retention rates, and expedite new-hire time to productivity.

• New Hire Learning Journeys

They leverage comprehensive roadmaps and learner journeys that begin at the pre-boarding stage to effectively align new hires to organizational culture and business goals.

• Immersive Learning Experiences

They drive learner engagement and maximize learning depth and length of retention by leveraging strategies like gamification, AR/VR, personalization, and microlearning.

Achievements

EI has won 25 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in the last two years. They have also been featured in over 40 global ranking lists in 18 different categories. They ranked No. 1 in eLearning Industry's list of Top Content Providers for Employee Onboarding in 2021.

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• Performance Consulting

Do you want to design strategic learning solutions? AllenComm can help you create training that drives behavior change. They are experts at identifying and analyzing learner and business needs to support change.

• Instructional Design

Leverage their Instructional Design expertise to build learning solutions that are engaging and user-friendly. From engaging content to creating targeted activities, they've got you covered.

• Content Management And Distribution

Managing and updating course content is made easy. You can do so across many platforms, languages, or brands. No more struggling to keep your training up to date.

Achievements

They build onboarding training for ADM, which needed to ensure workplace safety and operational efficiency. The training resulted in a 90% reduction in weekly unplanned product loss due to operator error and a 75% reduction in unplanned downtime due to error.

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• Culture, Values, Brand

The first days on the job create deep impressions on new employees. Onboarding is a critical education and communications tool to embrace employees in your culture, values, and brand. SweetRush works with you to create onboarding that provides context and skill-building activities on mission-critical topics that set employees up for success—such as your service philosophy—and promotes your focus on social responsibility and sustainability.

• Learner-Centric Design

Through onboarding, you can communicate to employees that you care about them, their experience at their new company, and their growth and development. Through SweetRush's design thinking experience, CoDesign℠, stakeholders, SMEs, and learners collaborate with the project team to build empathy and understand what learners want and need from onboarding. Fully custom learning solutions are then designed to speak authentically to learners and fit seamlessly into their work environment. 

• Multi-Generational, Multi-Modality Engagement

Onboarding reaches the broadest audience of any type of training. This means a wide range of ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, locations...and even bandwidth and tech-savviness. SweetRush creates custom solutions that blend eLearning, mobile, instructor-led, and self-study learning experiences to reach and teach employees in the way that works best for them and provides flexibility for managers.

Achievements

SweetRush has been fortunate to receive multiple honors, including 199 Brandon Hall awards (83 Gold awards) since 2017. The team has won several awards for employee onboarding programs for innovation and custom content.

SweetRush has created onboarding programs for Fortune 100 clients in hospitality, financial services, consumer products, and more. For a top hotel chain launching a new brand, the team created a cultural blueprint defining the behaviors that express the brand values. Through blended learning, employees learn and practice the brand's unique customer service skills.

Highlights

• Immersive

They apply advanced learning theory to create scenarios, animations, games, social learning elements, or AR/VR/MR to immediately immerse your new hires into real-world experiences.

• Personalized

They work closely with your team to align onboarding materials to meet the unique needs of your organization, creating a personalized experience for your employees.

• Flexible

Their onboarding materials are custom-designed to be delivered as ILT, VILT, blended or online, and any combination for the best learning experience possible.

Achievements

MindSpring's team worked with a national fast food chain to create an online onboarding process. This experience was designed as a game and branded with actual restaurant photos and video to create an immersive experience that improved time-to-task once in the restaurant.

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• Onboarding And Active Work In Parallel

They can help you create onboarding experiences that don't end once mandatory learning has been completed. Learning Pool can assist learners to surface new and relevant recommended learning experiences. This is done by tailoring the experiences to the new hires' development over time. They are masters at helping you create learning and performance support in the moment of need. All within the flow of work, reducing time-to-competence with onboarding, training, and work in parallel. 

• Stream LXP For Employee Onboarding

Learning Pool has created an exceptional platform for employee onboarding. With this tool, trainers can transform user engagement by leveraging social and self-directed learning. You'll find the natural language deep search as well as the personalized recommendations handy.

• Ready-Made eLearning Libraries

They deliver on their promises and listen to customers. They've made it their mission to constantly look at ways to improve and innovate. Thus, Learning Pool offers a variety of off-the-shelf libraries that can help your team hit the ground running. You can find cost-effective, flexible, impactful content to onboard your new employees. 

Achievements 

Learning Pool can help you overcome many of the critical challenges of onboarding by placing new employees at the center of the process. They allow them to direct their own onboarding and training in a way that recognizes their individual needs. This maximizes new employee engagement through a self-guided, "bottom-up" approach to learning. They have their way of helping you use mandatory learning to ensure compliance. Learning Pool's expertise can enrich onboarding training and make the new hires feel part of the company quickly and efficiently. Reach out to them and take your employee onboarding to the next level!

Highlights

Their team has dealt with a broad range of client needs and industries. This means that they have delivered a number of course development and LMS projects that help with employee onboarding and retention.

• Experience In The Hospitality Industry

They had the honor to work with the European and American Hospitality Academy. eWyse delivered ground-up design and development of a training academy and content for new starters in the hospitality industry, a mix of training roles, world-class content, and also detailed management reporting to deliver a compelling market differentiator for their client.

• Employee Onboarding Programs For Fintech Operators

eWyse delivered an employee onboarding program to NETS CEE, a leading European Fintech operator. The courses that eWyse developed helped members of the senior management team step back from delivering content and courses themselves and allowed for greater focus on core competencies.

• Rollout Of Complex Learning Management Platforms

eWyse created a learning platform for Ledvance. The company was in need of a number of different audience profiles. The LMS and hundreds of associated courses helped with employee onboarding, as well as providing customers with valuable product information. The platform was also designed to allow for third-party trades such as electricians and fitters to access important technical details to help them with their tasks.

Achievements

eWyse's unique custom development process not only has been award-winning, but it has also offered huge value to their clients. Why? Well, it had helped them reach their learning objectives more efficiently and in a short time. This content provider has worked with some of the largest pharmaceutical companies, banks, and manufacturing firms in Europe. They have helped the above organizations develop hundreds of courses in multiple languages and at extremely short notice. The custom approach they use has also been replicated in their LMS offering. This also includes new rollouts of complex learning academies for clients in the hospitality, sports, and manufacturing areas.

Highlights

ELB Learning helps you create, deliver, and track employee onboarding that rocks.

• Custom Course Development

They can build onboarding experiences for you that employees actually enjoy—from gamified eLearning to immersive VR! Their award-winning course development team has a proven process for efficiently creating engaging onboarding programs within your budget.

• Authoring Tools, Templates, And Assets

Using their authoring tools, Lectora and CenarioVR, you can create interactive onboarding training. Their responsive and accessible templates, stock assets, and mobile games provide tons of resources for rapid development. Save time and create rockin' onboarding!

• User-Friendly Learning Platform

Use the Rockstar Learning Platform to deliver and track onboarding experiences. With the Virtual Event Manager, you can centralize live and virtual onboarding events to one calendar. Plus, you can add them in the context of a larger curriculum and give credit for attendance. Pre-assess new hires with the Assessment Module and find each worker's skill gaps and career goals. Instantly enroll them in relevant courses. Finally, you can easily source key knowledge from Subject Matter Experts in your organization to share with new hires.

Achievements

The ELB Learning Custom eLearning Development team earned a Silver Brandon Hall Group Award for a gamified onboarding experience created for AMN Healthcare. The award was in the category Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Project. Their Rockstar Learning Platform has also been ranked an eLearning Industry Top LMS for onboarding.

Highlights

• Create an experience, not a course

Onboarding shouldn't be a one-off event. To maintain engagement and truly support new joiners in those critical first 100 days, they create experiences that encourage a journey of growth, bringing your new starter into the fold.

• A true partner

They are helping you maximize the knowledge that already exists in your business. Their expert learning designers work with your SMEs to turn existing knowledge into highly interactive eLearning that will inspire your new employees.

• Put people at the heart of the process

People, connectivity, and feeling like you belong are vital to the employee onboarding process. Buddies, coaches, mentors, and peers all have a part to play, by sharing their stories and experiences. Kineo encourages their clients to embrace and support social learning—formally and informally—by using or setting up platforms that enable people to connect and help one another.

• Demonstrating ROI
  Insight and advice on how to assess performance and learning analytics are essential. That is if you want to foster a culture of continuous improvement for your onboarding programs.

Achievements

• TransGrid

Kineo worked with electricity provider TransGrid to deliver an induction eLearning program. The training managed to successfully educate, build commitment to the brand, and create belief in the company mission. TransGrid is a provider of electricity to more than 3 million households and businesses across Australia. The company needed structured centralized onboarding for new staff. The TransGrid induction eLearning was designed by Kineo to bring results fast. It was assigned to newly hired individuals and had to be completed within the first two weeks of their employment.

Highlights

• Consultation services to chart the onboarding program

They offer dual benefits in employee onboarding. They work with customers to understand the learner profile and training duration to offer them a unique roadmap for their onboarding requirements—the optimal blend of what should be covered in the classroom and online. They also design and develop onboarding assets including online courses, classroom material, and ready reckoners.

• Modern strategies to engage employees

They use modern learning strategies to engage new hires and get them onboard quickly and effectively. Their large pool of IDs and authoring tools experts designs and develops onboarding programs that are rooted in strong Instructional Design principles. Some methods they use to create immersive learning experiences for new hires include:

• • LEAD strategy and/or virtual walkthroughs to virtually explore the organization's campus and departments
  • Welcome video by CEO/top management
  • Gamification to raise the engagement bar
  • Microlearning to enable learning in the flow of work
  • Social learning to foster a continuous learning culture

The USP of CommLab India's onboarding programs is making them utilitarian, organized, effective, and efficient.

• Translation and LMS services to complete the onboarding package

To ensure consistent and effective onboarding for every employee, CommLab India Rapid eLearning Solutions offers translation and localization services in 35 different languages. They've also created a plug-and-play LMS, Effectus, that can be used exclusively for onboarding programs. It offers new hires a learner-friendly platform with easy navigation, visual dashboards, leaderboards, mobile compatibility, and social learning opportunities.

Highlights

• Needs Analysis

Cinecraft analyzes data, facilitates interviews and focus groups, and observes employees. These tools help to paint a complete picture of how your content can achieve maximum impact.

• Instructional Design

Cinecraft has a unique skillset in designing authentic and relevant learning experiences for new employee onboarding, including video-based scenarios and simulations.

• Video Production

Since 1939, Cinecraft has been innovating the way video is consumed by producing orientation videos, video-based scenarios, and video-based simulations.

Achievements

Cinecraft has been awarded nearly 100 awards for its work by Brandon Hall, Learning Guild's DemoFest, Serious Play, International eLearning Association, and more.

Highlights

• Science-Backed L&D Models And Methods

Dr. Allen's SAM and the CCAF Model have been delivering meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning experiences for performance improvement for over three decades.

• Future-Proof Training With Continuous Optimization

Forward-thinking organizations partner up with Allen Interactions partners to evolve and grow meticulously.

• Committed To Your Performance And Success

Allen Interactions uses a variety of performance ecosystem initiatives. They focus on each organization's unique improvement goals and needs to make training work and drive the business forward.

Achievements

No one survives, achieves, and succeeds without learning, adapting, and performing. Their science-based learning methodologies drive performance change and create measurable gains for today and tomorrow's workforce through innovative onboarding.

Highlights

• Onboarding Sessions That Inspire And Are Engaging

Tesseract Learning's training solutions for onboarding new employees are designed and delivered to create better learner engagement. Give your new hires what they need, when they need it, by employing onboarding with continuous learning. 

• Memorable Solutions, Customized To Specific Needs Of The Organization

Their team builds custom onboarding solutions that align with the branding, ethos, and core values of the organization they serve. The learning courses are memorable and are followed with microlearning nuggets for long-term retention of the subject. Tesseract's solutions also act as a centralized content management system (CMS) that empowers staff to revisit training content, take up modules or training at their own pace, and self-serve early development. 

• Customer Delight

Tesseract achieves this by continuously delivering learning solutions that exceed expectations, are high-quality, on time, and within each client's budget. Integrating the various touchpoints on an employee's onboarding journey is also a primary focus. Tesseract's discussions also consider the dynamics of schedules, remote working styles, the gig economy, globalization, and office-less workplaces. 

To cap it off, Tesseract always aims at inspiring excellence and putting forth an approach of taking intelligent risks.

Achievements

Tesseract Learning has implemented a variety of onboarding solutions for their customers, including digital and classroom. One of their customers wanted to have a seamless onboarding experience for their new employees in the sales division. They used scenarios, videos from experts and leaders, gamification for activities, and a complete visual roadmap or learning journey to help learners seamlessly understand the division's policies, best practices, strategy, and vision.

Highlights

• Collaborative

Improve productivity while ensuring that employees feel a collective sense of ownership and accomplishment in what they are building.

• Reflective

Accelerate learning by building in time for people to reflect on what they're learning.

• Intentional

Stop wasting time with boring eLearning or Zoom calls; Curious Lion ensures every element of the experience is intentional.

Achievements

They built slick pre-session micro-videos and post-session checklists for new hire fundamentals training for PagerDuty, empowering the client to spend less time converting old training that didn't work.