Onboarding
Onboarding is a critical process that sets the foundation for success and integration for people joining Colart. It goes beyond mere orientation and paperwork, encompassing a comprehensive approach to familiarising you or a new team member with our culture, values, and expectations. Effective onboarding plays a pivotal role in fostering employee engagement, job satisfaction, and retention. It provides the necessary knowledge, resources, and support to navigate roles and responsibilities with confidence. By facilitating a smooth transition, onboarding minimises the learning curve, accelerates productivity, and enhances overall organisational performance. Additionally, it promotes our culture of openness that allows deeper connections between people and teams, a curiosity that leads to new innovations and a safe environment in which to learn, fail and be our authentic self.
This page provides an overview of the stages of Onboarding. The schedule may vary depending on the role and location however typically should include:
- Preboarding
- Orientation and welcome
- Introduction to colleagues
- Overview of our culture and policies
- Job Specific Training
- Organisational chart overview of team and stakeholders
- Ongoing support and expectations
- Performance Expectations
- Integrations and socialisation within and outside the immediate team
Stage 1: Pre-boarding
The HR team has developed a pre-boarding portal within Splash, enabling you or the new team member to start experiencing our ways of working and connect with our common purpose before the start date. The portal includes welcome video messages from our Chief Executive and People Officers, as well as important new employee documents, ensuring that "day one" and the weeks that follow are the best possible experience we can provide.
Currently, the portal is available in the UK; however, we plan to test and develop new content for rollout to all Colart regions, in the mid-term future.
Stage 2: Induction
Our Induction Schedule aims to set you or the new team member up for success and facilitate integration into our ways of working and culture. The schedule provides the necessary information, resources, and support to become familiar with a new role and environment.
The Induction Schedule at Colart is triggered through a workflow form, ensuring a consistent and structured approach to planning. If you're a hiring manager wanting to kickstart induction, click on the button below and complete the online workflow form. The form covers stakeholder one-on-ones, buddy assignments, IT equipment and services, finance services, and special requests. Once completed, the HR Team will work with the hiring manager to develop the schedule.
Don't forget to submit your New Starter details through the announcement form - in this way everyone across the business will learn about your new starter through Colart News!
To view the Onboarding Workflow form click below
Stage 3: The Buddy
The buddy, often an experienced team member, acts as a mentor, guide, and support system for you or the new starter. They help navigate the new environment, understand company culture, and settle you into the role more smoothly. The main goal of a buddy programme is to accelerate the onboarding process, enhance employee engagement, and foster a sense of belonging and connection within the team, as well as the broader Colart network and beyond.
The programme can help you or the new team member feel more comfortable and supported, potentially reducing any stress and increasing confidence. It can also assist in accelerating the learning curve, enabling faster productivity and job satisfaction. Additionally, it fosters positive relationships between employees, promoting unity and connecting to our common purpose.
Stage 4: The Welcome Pack
The onboarding process begins immediately after you or the new team member receives the offer letter and encompasses the entire pre- and early stages of their journey with us. As a crucial part of this experience, we provide a welcome pack that goes above and beyond, ensuring our new hires feel confident about their decision to join Colart.
At Colart, we believe in the power of hands-on experiences, especially when it comes to our products. That's why we encourage you or the new team member to be truly immersed in our brands. As we say here at Colart, to love our brands like our consumers and customers do. The bespoke new starter pack includes a range of art materials from a mix of our brands, a heartfelt welcome message, and detailed instructions for a tutorial that guides you in creating a stunning piece of art using the provided materials, all presented in a colourful tote bag that features our brand logos. (You can watch the online tutorial as an eLearning course on Colart Academy. Click on the button below to access).
On the first day of joining our team, the local HR team will present the new starter pack and help to feel a sense of belonging from the start. It's our way of showing them that we value everyone's creativity and contributes to our vision to inspire every artist in the world.
Stage 5: Self Learning through Colart Academy
At Colart we really believe in the importance of helping people develop themselves personally and professionally. The foundation for this development lies in the Colart Academy, which is built upon four pillars: leadership, skill, community, and service. During the induction period, you or any new team member have an excellent opportunity to establish habits that foster ongoing self-learning practises. The courses we provide are all online which means you can learn what you like, when you like.
All courses are open to everyone; you get to choose what you learn. However, if you just started out on Colart Academy, we recommend the following:
- Induction Sessions this course is a must for anyone new to Colart and provides an overview of our core organisations within Colart
- Connectivity and Collaboration
- Building Effective Relationships
- Agile Thinking and Working
- Building a Community in the Colart Family
In addition to these courses, we also offer comprehensive eLearning user guides to support your experience with our platforms. These guides cover a range of topics, including using Microsoft Teams at Colart, navigating The Bank, understanding Google Analytics, resetting your password, IT security essentials, and many more.
To access Colart Academy, simply click on the button below and start your learning journey today.
Stage 6: Health & Safety Learning
An effective workplace safety induction program is designed to provide you or the new team member with the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. At Colart, like our People First policy, our Safety First policy ensures that we instill a safety-conscious mindset from the beginning, foster a culture of safety, and reduce the risk of workplace accidents and injuries.
The HR team will provide local health and safety information on the first day of joining Colart. Additionally, if you are new to Colart you are required to complete online safety modules based on the region you are located at. Links to these course are available as follows:
The HR Team locally adminster the safety induction prgramme and will connect with the new starter to coordinate this.
If you have any questions relating to Health & Safety you can speak to your local resprentative. Contact details are available by clicking in button below.
