Onboarding: Starting Employees Off on the Right Foot: eProgram Series February 7, 2013

Thursdays February 7 - April 4; 10:00am - 11:00am

5 General Recertification Credits

Did you know that 50% of all new hires consider leaving within the first seven months of employment? Want to know how to get all of your new hires contributing sooner? Join us to learn how to effectively design, develop, implement and measure an engaging and effective onboarding program so that you can avoid unwanted early turnover and get your talent off to a fast start.

We will explore a four step process for building an onboarding program for the first 90 days of employment including program branding, using the latest onboarding technology and how to motivate managers to support your implementation.

The series includes five 60 minute online sessions:

February 7: Investing in Onboarding - Make the business case for onboarding by evaluating case studies of successful programs and how they contributed to the bottom line.

February 21: Onboarding: Design Principles - Learn how to brand your program; tying onboarding to talent acquisition, pre-boarding strategies, centralized vs. decentralized designs, use of technology in the early phases.

March 7: Onboarding: What to Include - Discover best practice program content, how to appeal to the "head and heart" of the employee, and design your program around employee and business needs

March 21: Onboarding: Rollout - Examine several engaging mobile and Web technologies, including the use of gamification in delivering the onboarding program. Plus, explore potential roles of the support team for the new employee.

April 4: How to Measure Success - Explore six different methods of proving the financial contribution of your onboarding program to the organization.

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