What is Buddy Program and how to design it?

What is Buddy Program and how to design it?

Possibility of an employee leaving company is higher in first 3-6 months as this is the time when new employee tries to adjust in the new system. If HR of the company can work on ensuring that these new employees feel comfortable during initial phase of their employment, then they can put a break on attrition at early stage.

Hence, BUDDY PROGRAM can be considered as one of the way to ensure orientation and retention.

Orientation and retention are all about making your new employees feel at home. That also means helping them understand your organizational culture and politics. A buddy program is a great tool to assist in both of these objectives.

I have also experimented Buddy program and would like to share my experience with you guys.

Buddy program is quite simple. Every new joinee is associated with one of the employee who is from the same project and associated with company since few years and knows about company policy, culture, who is who and project details. This person is called Buddy of that new joinee.

During few initial months new joinee is reserved as he tries to understand the organization. Buddy helps new joinee in many ways. some of the them are listed below.

• Helping him to understand culture of company. 
• Helping him to understand how small to small processes work in company.
• Helping him to understand basis rules and regulations.
• Helping him to understand small project details.
• Helping him to settle down in the system.

Please do implement the same in your organization and share your views with all of them.

Some of the things which you should keep in mind while implementing this system.

• Ensure you ask employees to nominate themselves to be buddy of new joinees. This has to be volunteer and not forced.
• Ensure that you select right person who is engaged with organization and satisfied as Buddy else you he can impact new joinees in negative way.
• Keep taking feedback from new joinee in between so that you know the progress.
• Take feedback from manager also on new joinees and see how this system working.
• At the end of the Buddy program, do take written feedback. Download copy of feedback questions format
• Keep duration of buddy program for 2-3 months. Too long and short duration will also not give desired result.

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