BNP Paribas Fortis teams up with Talmundo to revamp their new hire welcome mindset and embark on a journey of improving employee onboarding experience through a mix of technological innovation and in-person experiences.
Introducing digital onboarding innovations into a traditional banking environment allowed BNP Paribas Fortis to build new brand ambassador and client employee programs, taking their employer brand to a new level through referrals. BNP Paribas Fortis’ Adventure Coach Tim Callebaut shares his point of view on growing and guiding new hires from being new to the company to becoming its brand ambassadors.
Before partnering with Talmundo, BNP Paribas Fortis had a very traditional approach to onboarding. When new employees had questions they were typically given the same answer for everything, "You can find that on the intranet."
Before BNP Paribas ventured out with the goal of transforming their new hire welcome approach, their onboarding had no defined structure from the organizational point of view, fully depending on the goodwill of each individual manager.
The traditional approach to onboarding at BNP Paribas Fortis consisted primarily of paperwork given to new hires on their first day on the job. Information presented in the form of packs of paper and presentations overwhelmed new hires instead of being a helpful welcome guide. And any questions new hires might have had? They were left to sort through the documents available on the Intranet to find the answers.
Finally, new hire welcome activities included presentations both for new and existing employees - spread out throughout the year, welcome days included formal presentations for groups of hires, even though many of them have started working at the company already.
Having done a lot of research before starting out with onboarding, with the help of Talmundo App feedback forms and pulse checks, BNP Paribas Fortis can now continuously collect and evaluate critical employee feedback, making the whole onboarding process work smoother and grow to be more appealing to real employees every day.
"Along the way people started to ask critical questions - we see that the people were interested enough to give honest feedback and help the app and our onboarding evolve together."
With Talmundo in place, Tim and his team re-evaluated the entire process of new hire socialization, changing all of its key components in line with the new vision of feedback and innovation.
The welcome day itself changed very drastically - today BNP Paribas Fortis welcome day focuses exclusively on culture in the first part of the day, whilst in the second part, new hires get to visit different innovation initiatives of the bank in Brussels, experiencing innovation and change first hand. With Talmundo, even before new hires step into the office, they get to take an immersive 360 Degrees virtual tour of BNP Paribas Fortis’ newest flagship offices in Belgium, building up the excitement though a combination of innovative technology and a personal touch.
Tim explains, "This new approach allows new hires to take these experiences back with them, people are much more enthusiastic about their new job when they have experienced the change themselves - that is also the best way to make them ambassadors.”
Focusing on a number of KPI’s available in-app:
Using the continuous feedback mechanisms that allow to enhance and restructure content delivery as the application develops, only select information is sent to new hires exactly when it is most helpful and relevant.
“The in-app pulse checks alone helped us intuitively shape the onboarding program,” shares Tim.
With the informative part out of the way, new hires can meet with their managers in person faster - tackling objectives, not office plans or compliance documents, together. Thanks to Talmundo, new hires at BNP Paribas Fortis receive new information in timely, segmented, digestible pieces.
.svg){kind=small}
