Manager Onboarding: 5 Ways to Set New Leaders Up for Success

The worst thing organizations can do is hire or promote the most technically competent person to management and not give them the tools for success. Leadership and management development programs achieve only one piece of what managers need to accomplish organizational goals; a critical component is manager onboarding. Using the principles of career development and employee onboarding, learning and development professionals can contribute to the company’s bottom-line results by helping to onboard managers into their new roles. Join Sharlyn Lauby, CPLP, for a discussion on the five practical tips to use when developing a management onboarding program that will set new managers up for success. In this webcast, you will learn: - the reasons why new managers—including learning and development managers—need their own onboarding program - how to design a manager onboarding program that will meet organizational goals, in the case of both succession planning as well as accelerated or unplanned promotions - metrics that will evaluate program success.