New Employee Onboarding Certificate

• Identify strengths and areas for improvement in your current onboarding initiatives.

• Define a business case for onboarding.

• Write a recruiting brief to direct the individuals in the hiring process and choose a strong candidate.

• Build a positive relationship with the new hire in the interval between hiring and their first day.

• Apply strategies to ensure new hires are clear about their roles and responsibilities.

• Identify special considerations when onboarding managers and executives.

• Generate ideas for how to incorporate new approaches into an organization’s onboarding process.

• Plan interactions to enable a new hire to build relationships with relevant colleagues in the organization.

• Create an onboarding plan that identifies meaningful contributions the new hire can make within the first 90 days.

• Communicate the results of the onboarding program to key stakeholders within the organization.

• Learn how to develop an onboarding program, from business case to implementation.

• Refresh the content of an existing onboarding program.

• Improve employee engagement by providing tools for successful new hire integration.

• Increase new hire ROI.

Human resource, talent development, and organizational development professionals seeking to enhance their onboarding program design and management skills will benefit from this workshop. Primary audiences include individuals who want to create, update, or manage an onboarding program as an integral part of their talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies and who want to learn how to design successful onboarding programs, from building the business case to adapting existing onboarding programs.

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• What Is Onboarding?

• One Size Does Not Fit All

• ATD’s 5R Onboarding Model

• Benefits of Onboarding

• Analyzing Your Current Onboarding Initiatives

• Aligning Your Program With Organizational Goals

• Build the Business Case

• Use Metrics to Make Your Case Compelling

• Writing a Recruiting Brief

• Creating an Engagement Culture

• Making a Great Impression

• Planning Realistic Job Previews

• Pre-Onboarding Your New Hire

• Organizing Onboarding Content

• Planning for a Great First Day

• Creating an Engagement Culture

• Required Trainings

• Building Employee Engagement

• Developing Clear Expectations

• Onboarding Managers and Executives

• Planning Socialization for New Hires

• New Employee Coaching

• Creating a Personalized Onboarding Plan

• Planning Check-Ins

• Common Onboarding Challenges

• Measuring Program Results

• Effective Communication Strategies