Office 365 Onboarding for Employees
Your employees are familiar with Office. Now it’s time to take them to Office 365. Do it right with Pointivity’s Office 365 onboarding services.
What Your Employees Want
Bottom Line: They want solutions that make their jobs easier. They’ll likely be curious about Office 365, but to be adopted, they need to be shown how it’ll work better than their existing tools.
To be effective, an employee’s onboarding for Office 365 needs to show how the software will:
Don’t bore them. Train to delight.
90% of consumers have prior Office experience — using it for jobs that require basic content creation, formatting and analysis. Meaning, your employees already know many of the tools within Office 365.
Don’t bore them with training they don’t need. Give them training that will inspire, motivate, and show them how Office 365 will make their lives better than before.
Microsoft’s Onboarding Principles
Microsoft makes onboarding a breeze by following specific principles aimed at inspiring and readying your employees for their new Office 365 environment.
Introduce them to the Office 365 environment and give them a high-level overview of how the technology will improve their work.
Show staff the differences between their old Office tools and their new Office 365 environment and how these differences will impact their work.
Reduce employee friction and anxiety by walking employees through the set-up process.
The Roadmap to a Successful Employee Onboarding for Office 365
To achieve any success, you need a strategy and the same applies to your Office 365 onboarding. Pointivity focuses on creating an onboarding service which will give you a roadmap to successfully bring your employees into the world of Office 365.
Our onboarding roadmap will help you empower your employees to fully adopt the new technology, create a work environment where employees feel empowered, and minimize their fear of change while protecting your investment.
While your roadmap will be tailored specifically to you, it will generally include the following focus areas: