Description
Employee Onboarding is an important and vital part of any companies hiring procedure. Hiring, training, and bringing new employees on board cost a lot of money and are major investments. Onboarding is a secure investment that will assist newly hired employees in developing and keeping their skills, knowledge, and value within the company. It will stop highly skilled workers from being lured to a competitor, which makes your company stronger within the market. Through Employee Onboarding you will find it lowers costs related to employee turnover. It will increase productivity and produce a happier and more skilled workforce. The new hire phase is a critical time for the employee and company and having a structured set of procedures will make this time run smoother and produce a greater chance of success.
Designed for
Managers and Supervisors
HR Staff
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
Define onboarding.
Understanding the benefits and purpose of onboarding.
Recognize how to prepare for an onboarding program.
Identify ways to engage and follow up with employees.
Create expectations.
Discover the importance of resilience and flexibility.
Getting Started
Just to make sure the experience is as smooth as possible we’d like to suggest a couple of things you may or will need to get on with the course:
While we are happy for anyone to enroll in the course, we suggest that you should be at least managing/leading a team (big or small) or preparing for a role that requires your leadership skills
Internet connection is a big must
Readiness to learn, remember this is about you and so you need to be ready to take time to yourself and motivate yourself
Maybe something to write some notes down or ideas, but don’t worry the course documents can be downloaded at the end of the course for you to review and use at any time
Have fun!
The Course Outline
Purpose of Onboarding
What’s in it for me: Learn about why onboarding is needed, the cost it takes to onboard and why it is important to retain, manage employee turnover, and set realistic expectations.
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Introduction
What’s in it for me: In this section we discover what onboarding is. The importance of onboarding, why making employees feel welcome is needed and building the first day checklist.
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Onboarding Preparation
What’s in it for me: Learn about building Professionalism, clarity, designating a mentor and training in the onboarding process.
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Onboarding Checklist
What’s in it for me: We take a look at the important features of the onboarding process, building the pre-arrival, arrival, the first week and the first-month impressions.
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Creating an Engaging Program
What’s in it for me: Get off on the right track and learn about the role of human resources, the role of managers and their characteristics.
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Following Up with New Employees
What’s in it for me: We look at the Initial check-in, following up, setting schedules, and the mentor’s responsibility.
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Setting Expectations
What’s in it for me: This section covers defining requirements, identifying opportunities for improvement and growth, setting verbal expectations, and putting it in writing for agreements.
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Resilience and Flexibility
What’s in it for me: What is resiliency? Learn about what it is and why it is important, the five steps process and the need for flexibility?
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Assigning Work
What’s in it for me: We cover the general principles in work assignments and how to manage the dictatorial approach, the apple picking approach and using the collaborative approach.
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Providing Feedback
What’s in it for me: Learn about the art of giving feedback, the characteristics of good feedback, how to perform feedback and using delivery tools with and formal tactics.
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Reaching the End
What’s in it for me: How to know when you’ve achieved success, transitioning, and wrapping it all up.
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Closing up the course
What’s in it for me: You’ve done it, well done! But don’t stop here. Let’s summarize all you have learnt and remember knowledge is no good kept in a cupboard. Implement what you have learnt, try the tools and see the outcome until you find a combination that works for you! Congratulations we know you got what it takes to make a great leader!
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