SaaS Backwards Podcast

SaaS Backwards Episode 45: No second chances to make onboarding first impressions with CEO of Click Boarding, Mike Ehrle

Written by Jason Myers | Nov 11, 2022 4:37:48 PM

Welcome to episode forty-five of the SaaS Backwards podcast, where we interview CEOs and CMOs of fast-growing SaaS firms to reveal what they are doing that's working, and lessons learned from things that didn't work as planned. 

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If you’ve had the experience working with a large company, day one consists of paperwork--lots of it--and it contributes to a poor first impression. 

Simply increasing the percentage of people that accept offers and actually start work would have a massive bottom-line impact. 

And it’s not just day one. Research shows that what happens in the first 90 days of an employee’s tenure plays a big role in retention.

It’s hard for the all-in-one HR software behemoths to be experts at every component an HR team must solve, but so is getting traction as a best-of-breed startup. 

That’s the situation CEO Mike Ehrle walked into a year ago at Click Boarding, a SaaS that’s an employee experience platform and provides modern compliant HR solutions to impact higher growth and retention rates.  

In this episode, Ehrle sheds some light on his experience with:

  • Fixing internal issues and transforming to a collaborative culture
  • Dealing with unforeseen issues he missed in his due diligence (like development staff located in Ukraine prior to Russia’s invasion)
  • The need for product and business expertise to build key relationships in target accounts.