Onboarding: A Four Step Process To Ensure a Fast Start June 3, 2011

Did you know effective onboarding has four times more power than compensation when winning discretionary effort from new hires? Yet, recent data shows most companies do a mediocre job of acclimating new employees. Without a well-thought-out process, productivity suffers and the risk of losing key talent in the first 180 days is high.

Design a dynamic, step-by-step onboarding process--from scratch or by revamping your current plan--that ensures effective assimilation, by:

Avoiding common pitfalls of new employee orientation

Capturing both the head and the heart of your new employees

Outlining the role of the hiring manager

Establishing metrics to measure and communicate the value of successful onboarding

1.00 CPE Credit(s)

About the Presenter
Dr. B. Lynn Ware, President and CEO, Integral Talent Systems, Inc., is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and the founder and President of Integral Talent Systems, Inc.-ITS, an internationally known technology enabled talent management consulting firm. Since 1992, ITS offers state of the art tools and services for organizations who desire to attract, develop, engage and retain their top talent. Dr. Ware has designed and developed talent management strategies and programs for over 150 organizations, including 80 of the Fortune 1000. She is frequently quoted on trends in talent management in numerous publications and has been featured several times on CNN as a national talent management expert.

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