Welcome to Pract.us for Onboarding!
We’re glad you’re using our application to make onboarding easy for you and help your new employee succeed. The starter pack comes with pre-loaded onboarding tasks, resources, and templates. This page will show you how to use it. It takes just a few minutes to get going.
You’ll also learn how you can customize the content to your needs. And don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need help.
What is Pract.us?
Pract.us is a powerful learning system that helps you and your team focus on your business mission and key objectives while your carry out daily tasks. At Pract.us, we believe that we can get better at our jobs every day, and our tool helps you focus your employees on improving their abilities as they work.
With Pract.us for Onboarding, you’ll be starting your new hires out right by giving them a full introduction to your company, supporting their adjustment to the new position, and helping them build loyalty and engagement.
A quick note before you start
You’ll see that the tool refers to “cards” and “skills.”
- “Skills” are small tasks to complete. They can range from simple activities, like writing an email, to more intense learning, like operating equipment.
- “Cards” are collections of skills that go together. You might have a collection of skills to complete on your new hire’s first day. These are all collected onto one card.
Ok, so why do we call a simple task a “skill?” Isn’t that overkill?
Well, it’s a bit lofty to call something like “sending an email” a skill, but at Pract.us, we believe that we can learn and improve our work in everything we do. Accordingly, we like to approach even the most basic activities with the same learning mindset as we do with more advanced abilities. And so we call them “skills.”
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
Michael Jordan
Get started with your first card
- Take a look at the card “1- Preparation Before Day 1”
- Review the skills on this card.
- Remove any skills you don’t need. Watch this video to learn how: Removing a Task from a List (30 seconds)
- When you’re ready, start the time clock on your card. Watch this video to learn how: Enrolling in a Card to Get Started (39 seconds)
- Click on each skill to read the instructions and use the resources and templates as needed.
- Check off each skill as you complete it. Here’s the video: Check Off Your Skills (72 seconds)
When you’ve completed your first card, enroll in the next one and keep going with the rest of your cards!
P.S. There’s a lot you can do with this tool to enhance your onboarding and even other training. When you’re ready to learn more or customize your system further, keep reading.
Assign a card to someone else on your team
You can ask others to take responsibility for a card by assigning it to them. For onboarding, you can assign these cards to your new hire. This will put your new employee in control of his or her own continued onboarding success.
To assign the cards to someone else:
- Invite the person to join your team. Inviting Someone to Your Team (45 seconds)
- Ask your new team member to set up their profile. Setting Up Your Profile (104 seconds)
- Enroll the person in the card you select. Enrolling Another Person in a Card (58 seconds)
- Follow your employee’s progress. Getting Progress Reports (85 seconds)
Encourage social learning with mentors and validated skills
You can help your new hire develop a strong social network, get to know colleagues, and learn more about the business by using mentors to sign off the skills. So far, the person enrolled in the card has been the one to check off each skill as complete.
But you can add another person as a mentor. Mentors work with your new employee to explain, demonstrate, discuss, or review key information or processes. They make sure that the learner has completed the skill’s objective before signing it off. They “validate” the work the learner has done.
You can add a mentor to sign off any onboarding task, but a meeting with a key colleague is a good way to begin. Here’s how:
- Invite the person to join your team. Inviting Someone to Your Team (45 seconds)
- Ask your new team member to set up their profile. Setting Up Your Profile (104 seconds)
- Open the Skill “Validated Meeting With Key Colleague” and customize it with the relevant information. Editing a Skill (87 seconds)
- Create a new card and add your updated skill and the new mentor. Creating a New Card (67 seconds)
- Assign the card to your employee. Enrolling Another Person in a Card (58 seconds)
- When your learner is ready to ask for sign off, they can choose PIN or email sign off. Most people start with email. Your mentor will receive an email asking for the sign off which they can accept by clicking the link provided.
Create your own skills and cards
You might want to build completely custom skills and cards, and it’s very easy to do.
Video: Creating New Skills
Video: Creating New References
Video: Creating New Cards