Beyond Handbooks, Benefits, and Photo IDs: The Role of HR and Management in New Employee Onboarding

Why Should You Attend:

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. NEO is not a one day event, but rather a process that begins after their acceptance of the job and extends through the first year of their employment. Studies show that the new arrival's primary concerns are three things--my job, my boss, and my coworkers. Dealing with new employee jitters and uncertainties is a high priority in orientation programs. How long this psychological mayhem lasts may depend a great deal on employee orientation. It is estimated that 50% to 60% of new hires quit within the first seven months of their employment.

This webinar will emphasize how a comprehensive onboarding process plays a pivotal role in catalyzing your new hire’s engagement into their new role, responsibilities, and the organization. This process can help new recruits reach productivity a full two months sooner, they are likely to be tenured, function as a team member quicker, less likely to quit, and more likely to be an active member of the organization. All of this equates to huge financial savings for the organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Legal issues surrounding dress and appearance in the workplace
• Specific elements of a dress and appearance policy
• Prevention tactics to ensure employees are judged by their performance and not on stereotypes
• To provide checklists to use during phases of the onboarding process
• To highlight the important role of the “buddy”

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Identifying HR, the supervisor, and the buddy’s roles in welcoming and training the new employee
• Discussion on the new employee’s role in his/her orientation
• Differentiating between the orientation to the organization and the orientation to the department
• Explaining gap analysis, force field analysis, and SWOT analysis in assessing your organization’s onboarding requirements
• Assessing, designing, and developing, implementing, and evaluating your department’s NEO strategy

Who Will Benefit:

• Human resources generalists
• Directors
• Managers of all departments
• Mentors
• HR Managers
• Supervisors
• Controllers

Dr. Susan Strauss
Workplace and Education Harassment and Bullying Consultant, Strauss Consulting

Dr. Susan Strauss is a national and international speaker, trainer and consultant. Her specialty areas include management/leadership development, organization development, communication, and harassment and bullying. She is an expert witness for discrimination and harassment lawsuits. She trains and consults with business, education, healthcare, law, and government organizations from both the public and private sector.

Dr. Strauss has authored over 30 book chapters, books, and articles in professional journals. She has been featured on 20/20, CBS Evening News, and other television and radio programs as well as interviewed for newspaper and journal articles.

She has her doctorate in organizational leadership, is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and human services, a master’s degree in community health, and professional certificate in training and development.

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