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Getting Started with Employee Lifecycle

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About Employee Lifecycle

Employee Lifecycle projects are a means of getting feedback on important experiences in your employees’ tenure. For example, you can interview employees on their onboarding experience, request feedback when they leave, or even analyze how effective they found the promotion process. The major benefit of Employee Lifecycle is that it provides a means of automating the upload of participants and distribution of feedback surveys to your employees. Because there are many employee lifecycle touchpoints, there is no one right way to run an Employee Lifecycle project. However, many programs generally use the following steps:

Lifecycle Support Pages

All support pages with (EE & EL) at the end are compatible with Employee Lifecycle and Employee Engagement. However, the following pages explicitly reference features unique to Employee Lifecycle:

Qtip: People Import Automations can technically be applied to all Employee Experience projects, but can be especially useful for Onboarding and Exit Lifecycle projects. To use the People Import Automation, it is important to switch your brand over to unique identifiers.

Templates to Get You Started

There’s a resource available to you to make getting started with Lifecycle quick and painless. Every Employee Experience customer gets access to template projects, which include survey questions, messages, and dashboards developed by our subject-matter experts.

For our Employee Lifecycle users, we recommend the Exit Feedback and Onboarding Feedback templates. These templates measure drivers of employee experience for key employee events, and enables managers at every level to action and drive improvements. With research-based and validated engagement survey items and pre-configured dashboards from Qualtrics, these templates are ideal for measuring the effectiveness of your exit strategies and onboarding programs.

the exit feedback and onboarding feedback templates

These projects can be found when you create an EX project and look at the Template section.

Qtip: For an Engagement template, see Templates for Employee Experience. Note that while similar, Lifecycle projects are not the same as Employee Engagement projects.

Employee Lifecycle vs. Employee Engagement

Employee Lifecycle projects are incredibly similar to Employee Engagement projects. However, there are a few major differences.

Employee Lifecycle Employee Engagement

Participant Import Automation

Yes

No

Hierarchies

No

Yes

Message Automation

Yes

No

Action Planning Yes

Yes

Attention: Lifecycle has action planning, but no hierarchies or hierarchy-based data restrictions. That means that when reporting on action plans, this data is not restricted by place in the hierarchy, and so every user with access to action planning will see this data. As such, be careful who you give access to action planning.

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