AN ORGANIMI GUIDE
5 Benefits of using organizational charts.
Customizable
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Speed up your
onboarding
Workforce
planning
Today’s org charts can link to multiple data sources and provide customizable views, offering many benefits to employees and other stakeholders:
Improve collaboration and communication:
Employees and teams looking to work cross-functionally use org charts to identify and engage potential collaborators across the enterprise.
Improve collaboration and communication:
Employees and teams looking to work cross-functionally use org charts to identify and engage potential collaborators across the enterprise.
Enable workforce planning:
Org charts are invaluable tools for restructuring and planning for future growth. They can provide a snapshot of an organizations current state and be used to explore multiple ‘what-if’ scenarios.
Support new hire onboarding:
According to Glassdoor, great employee onboarding can improve employee retention by 82%, but Gallup found that 88% of employees think that their employer doesn’t onboard well.
Org charts are a valuable tool to onboard new hires. They provide a single-page snapshot of the entire organization and help onboarding employees to identify leaders and understand reporting relationships and team structures. Depending on how much information the org chart includes, new hires can also gather a more detailed view of their team members’ skills and responsibilities.
Give employees more information.
Today’s org charts can provide much more information than reporting relationships and contact details. They can include advanced, searchable directories, identify project teams and ‘dotted line’ reports, and sync with email and calendar apps.
Online Organizational Charts Versus Using a Software Application
Many organizations still use traditional office software applications (e.g., Powerpoint or Excel) to create their org charts. However, these charts have many disadvantages compared to those built with dedicated, cloud-based tools:
- Difficult to create and update: Creating and updating charts with office software is tedious and time-consuming. Purpose-built cloud solutions can dramatically reduce administration time, allowing HR teams to prioritize more important tasks.
- Static, outdated information: Org charts created in tools like Powerpoint are ‘point in time’ organizational pictures that quickly become outdated. This often results in the sharing of multiple versions of obsolete org charts across the enterprise. Cloud-based charts allow for real-time updates that are readily available to every employee.
- Cannot link to other applications: Traditional office applications typically cannot import information from other sources like HR applications. This limitation can result in time-consuming data reentry and restrict what information can be incorporated. Cloud-based org chart solutions easily import data from HR and CRM solutions like Salesforce, providing stakeholders with a wealth of supplemental data.
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