New Employee Orientation - HR & Management Challenges in Onboarding (Recorded)

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Course Description

As managers and HR professionals, we're in a new world creating new challenges in the way we do our work — including how we welcome and engage our new hires virtually and in person. Whether you call it Onboarding, Induction, Enculturation, or New Employee Orientation (NEO), the process used to welcome and train your new employees while capturing their excitement of a new job and reducing their new job jitters is critical to their success.

Onboarding is not a one-day event, but rather a process that begins after acceptance of the job offer and extends through the first year of employment. Studies show that a new arrival's primary concerns are three things: my job, my boss, and my coworkers. Onboarding is a strategy and critical process to get the new hire off and running in their new environment, enabling them to enjoy their work and their employer.

Why Should You Attend

Onboarding needs to include fun activities, using "buddies" to streamline the new hire's experience, beginning from the point of the job offer — and all of these efforts can be done virtually. It is one of the most important elements an employer should invest in. This webinar helps you assess, develop, implement, and evaluate your organization's onboarding strategy, whether in-person or virtual.

Learning Objectives

• Describe onboarding tactics for virtual and in-person new hires
• Discuss the intricacies of onboarding the new hire, including technology, virtual lunches, and I-9 documentation
• Identify HR's, the supervisor's, and the Buddy's roles in welcoming and training the new employee
• Discuss the new employee's role in their own orientation
• Differentiate between orientation to the organization and orientation to the department
• Assess, develop, implement, and evaluate your onboarding strategy
• Examine onboarding best practices

Areas Covered

• Sample checklists for the manager/supervisor, HR, and the Buddy
• Tips on orienting the in-person and virtual new employee
• How to evaluate your onboarding process
• Checklists for what to accomplish the first day, first week, first month, and first 90 days
• Suggested lists and topics for the onboarding portal
• Examining onboarding portal systems
• Tips on how to select and utilize a Buddy
• Orientation evaluation forms for the new hire, HR, the buddy, and management
• Tips on the manager-new hire "expectations" discussion

Who Will Benefit

• All industries — Human Resources generalists and managers
• Supervisors and managers of departments or units in any industry