In Employee Onboarding, you'll learn...
- How to manage the critical period from first contact to job offer
- How to roll out the red carpet the first day
- How to make orientation simple and painless
- Shortening the learning curve
- What happens to morale when you overload employees with information and bore them with videos and paperwork
- And much more!
Are you starting new employees off the right way-or driving them out the door? Studies show the more quickly employees are integrated into their new workplace, the faster they will achieve returns for their employer. Onboarding is much more than just getting employees “settled in.” It’s an innovative, new approach to employee orientation and integration and a direct path to improving retention and time-to-productivity. And proper onboarding helps employees get up to speed much more quickly and reduces the costs associated with learning on the job. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn how to create an onboarding experience that’ll engage, motivate and keep new hires on board-and deliver a high return on your recruiting and hiring investment.
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Getting started: Onboarding basics+
- What an effective onboarding program can do for employees, managers … your entire company
- 6 differences that separate “employee orientation” from “onboarding”
- The major factor driving onboarding today—it’s not what it was even a year ago
- How a long-term strategy with the right goals leads to productivity, retention and engagement
- Why traditional employee orientations fail—and what you can do about it
- How to present onboarding to senior management in a way that ensures their buy-in and support
- The characteristics of all successful onboarding experiences
- It’s NOT just for new hires—who else in your organization can benefit
Plan and organize an effective onboarding program+
- Planning 101: Hard questions to address before implementing your program
- 5 program design mistakes HR commonly makes
- When onboarding really begins … and really ends
- A step-by-step approach to putting together a creative and structured onboarding program
- The key role managers play
- Another form to sign? You don’t HAVE to overwhelm employees with paperwork
- 4 key areas every onboarding program must address
- The new way to “do” orientation … make it exciting, interactive, interesting, painless and NOT at all boring
- Develop a handy onboarding checklist that leaves nothing to chance
Start new hires off the right way+
- What you need to know to properly manage the crucial period from first contact to job offer
- 10 fun and simple tools for revving up a new employee’s enthusiasm
- First impressions are lasting impressions—5 tips for putting your best foot forward
- Inspiring new hires to visualize their future career with you—and participate in developing it
- Creative ways to use technology to streamline and accelerate orientation
- The first day: A walk-through of how to structure an agenda that eliminates “buyer’s remorse”
- Who usually is responsible for orientation … and who should be
- Avoid thoughtless mistakes that cause new hires to second-guess their decision to change jobs
Accelerate the engagement of valuable talent+
- Tackling the biggest complaints new hires have about the first day on the job
- How it pays to show employees the big picture—and their role in it
- How a fun culture is an important piece of the overall retention picture
- The first 90 days: Why new hires fail to engage and eventually derail—missteps you can avoid
- Why 90% of best-in-class companies incorporate socialization into their process
- What Gen X-ers need more than other workers—and how you can supply it
- Easy ways to make new hires feel like part of the team
- Don’t make employees learn the hard way—how to communicate cultural do’s and don’ts
Shorten time-to-productivity+
- How to start improving time-to-productivity even before the new hire arrives
- Job expectations—when and how to make these crystal clear
- Should you give employees “real work” right off the bat—or not?
- How to identify any problems new hires are having with the job before they get out of hand
- Want to supercharge time-to-productivity? Assign the right mentor
- How to minimize the little things that frustrate employees to no end
- How to anticipate a new hire’s questions—and answer them before they cause undue anxiety
- Give employees the 3 foundational things they need to be productive
Follow-up strategies crucial to program success+
- Staying alert to 5 factors that may cause your program to fail
- Getting employee feedback on orientation—the good and the bad
- What gems of insight a simple survey can uncover
- 3 key performance indicators of success
- Using “mystery shoppers” to root out problems
- Questions the hiring supervisor might ask to earn the loyalty and commitment they want
- Keeping the lines of communication open—formally and informally
- Do you sense a problem brewing? Do you have a game plan for intervention?
