Thunder Shortens Employee Onboarding Time from 30 days to 3 days

Success Story Overview

Industry: Salesforce SI

Impacted Users: Internal (Thunder Employees)

Outcomes

  • Better outcomes for our clients due to staff applying consistent methodology
  • Shorten onboarding timeline from 30 to 3 days
  • Sharing Best Practice to team mates
  • More efficient way to scale the business
  • Supporting our company culture and key values for hiring and retaining talent.

Thunder and Thunder Academy Vision

Thunder is a Salesforce Solution Integrator and Salesforce Partner. They are an all-remote team of seasoned Salesforce consultants, based from Hawaii to Brooklyn, NY. They use Appinium (100% native to Salesforce) in their Thunder Academy to skill up employees on:

  • Company Values like Empathy, Grit and Transparency
  • Employee Skills like Conducting Meetings or Building Solutions
  • Methodology (SI related)
  • Compliance Training like Sexual Harassment or Workplace Safety

Key Use Cases

  • Learning paths that result in digital badges or achievements
  • Tracking of progress and completions
  • New Hire Onboarding
  • On demand searchable media resource library (like “internal YouTube Channel”)
  • Hosting of All Hands Calls media recordings
  • Ability for users to rate content (media or learning plans)
  • Employee recognition: Learning completion plus other milestones like Years of Employment, Sales Goals or Shoutouts given/received. (Custom)

Key Challenges

  • Onboarding process was time consuming and hard to scale.
  • Content was in multiple locations and hard to keep updated.
  • Getting SME’s to provide great content examples or assist in curating.

Key Appinium Tools and Features Used

  • Certifications and Achievements
  • Webinars ILT – Attendance Tracking (Zoom integration)
  • Learning Plans – Online Self-Paced Courses
  • Media Catalogs and Playlists
  • Tracking of consumption of content 
  • myTeam – Managers can see team progress and assign content