Storyboard for Onboarding 101

I am developing an Onboarding Program. This program will include a process for setting up an onboarding program at a company. Within this program is a toolkit with additional processes, templates, checklists, videos, and other deliverables. But none of that will be effective if management does not buy into the need for onboarding. Therefore the first step in this program is what I am calling “Onboarding 101”. It is intended to be a type of “elevator pitch” to explain what is onboarding and why you, or your company, should be doing onboarding. And what can happen, what you should expect if you don’t do onboarding. This visual/infographic is to introduce the concept of onboarding and why onboarding is essential to the success of your company and, more importantly, to the success of your employees.

The information is broken down into three sections. First covers what is onboarding and how it differs from orientation. Second section is the largest and covers why do onboarding with lots of data regarding cost of hiring and training, how well companies currently do onboarding, and how employee engagement affects the company. The third section focuses on onboarding in a virtual world. This was already an issue before 2020. But with the pandemic and many companies choosing to not return to an office (at least not full-time), engaging employees virtually is a significant issue.

My intent of the visual for the final project is an infographic where each of the slides in my storyboard is a “row” in the infographic. Some rows will be mostly text, some with be metrics, and most will have an image of some sort. The “rows” that have metrics may simply have the metrics as the image. The last row will be “what’s next”. Again, with the intent of the infographic to raise awareness about onboarding and why you should do it.

Here is my storyboard: