

New Employee Onboarding Certificate
Develop for high performance from the start with successful new employee onboarding.
Create an effective onboarding program that immediately builds engagement with your new hires to increase retention and transform your organization.
In this program, you’ll learn everything you need to create effective onboarding programs that build engagement with your new hires even before they start on their first day. Using ATD’s 5R model of employee onboarding, you’ll learn to successfully navigate the review, recruitment, role clarity, relationship building, and results phases of onboarding.
Why Should I Attend?
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In this program, you’ll learn everything you need to create effective onboarding programs that build engagement with your new hires even before they start on their first day. Using ATD’s 5R model of employee onboarding, you’ll learn to successfully navigate the review, recruitment, role clarity, relationship building, and results phases of onboarding.
Why Should I Attend?
- Learn how to develop an onboarding program, from business case to implementation, at your organization.
- Refresh the content of an existing onboarding program.
- Improve employee engagement by providing tools for successful new hire integration.
- Increase new hire ROI.
- 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.
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New Employee Onboarding Certificate Brochure
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- Introduction to Onboarding
- Benefits of Onboarding
- Analyzing Your Current Onboarding Initiatives
- Aligning Your Program With Organizational Goals
- Building the Business Case
- Creating an Engagement Culture
- Writing a Recruiting Brief
- Interviewing Skills
- Realistic Job Previews
- Successful Pre-Onboarding
- Organizing Onboarding Content
- Planning for a Great First Day
- Compliance Training
- Highlighting Company Vision and Values
- Developing Role Clarity
- Onboarding Organizational Leaders
- Organizing Leadership Onboarding Content
- Planning Socialization for New Hires
- Buddy Relationships
- Employee Coaching
- Leadership Training
- Creating an Onboarding Plan
- Scheduling Check-Ins
- Planning for Long-Term Results
- Common Challenges for Onboarding Programs
- Measuring Program Results
- Effective Communication Strategies
This workshop is designed for human resources/organizational development professionals with zero to two years of experience designing and managing onboarding programs. 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.
Typical roles include:
- Instructional Designer
- Manager, Organizational Development
- Onboarding Program Manager
- Training Consultant
- Workforce Development Specialist.
ATD Education programs are designed primarily for learning professionals—trainers, instructional designers, and organizational development practitioners—but also greatly benefit anyone within an organization who is responsible for developing others, from managers to human resources specialists.

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Things to Know
COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS
Participation in all originally scheduled days of the program, including both face-to-face and live online formats, and completion of all coursework is mandatory to receive the certificate of completion and continuing education credits.
Face-to-Face Programs:
Participants who miss more than two hours of the entire program will not be eligible to receive the certificate.
Live Online Programs:
ATD requires active participation throughout the program to receive credit. Active participation in live online sessions includes, but is not limited to, participating in virtual classroom activities, discussions, breakout sessions, and intersession work.
Make-up policy: You can miss and make up one session* by listening to a session recording. Instructions for reporting make-up sessions are posted on ATD’s learning platform.
*For full-day sessions, you can only miss up to 3.5 hours and make up the time by listening to the recording.
CREDITS
14.0 learning hours
1.4 CEUs awarded
This program is eligible for 14.0 professional development hours or recertification points from the ATD Certification Institute (ATD CI) for the APTD or CPTD credential.
This program has been approved for 14.0 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
This program is valid for 14.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit shrm.org/certification.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
A laptop computer with Wi-Fi capability is required to participate in ATD Master® Programs.
Face-to-Face Program Components (if applicable):
Please do not bring mobile devices (for example, phones or tablets) instead of a laptop. There will be no computers available on-site for participants. Note: You might not have an optimal experience using Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge to access your courses. Chrome is the recommended browser.
Live Online Program Components (if applicable):
You must log in to the learning platform to access course content and to join all live online sessions. Special software is not required. You only need a standard web browser and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capability to participate. Please join your session from a location with a strong internet connection and plan to use VoIP for your audio during the entire session.
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