$297intermediate

Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program

Name: Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program
Price: 297.00 USD
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This comprehensive two-day workshop explores the full lifecycle of building and managing a successful employee onboarding program. You will learn how onboarding differs from orientation, how to build a steering team, design a structured framework, customize the program for different audiences, measure results, and brand the program to strengthen your organization's identity. Based on proven research and best practices, this course equips HR professionals and managers with the tools they need to reduce early turnover and drive employee engagement.

15 lessons5 modules900 minutes

What you'll learn

Define onboarding and describe how it differs from orientation
Identify the business benefits of a well-designed onboarding program
List the factors that contribute to a successful onboarding program
Build a steering team to design and oversee an onboarding program
Prepare a vision statement and goals for an onboarding program
Design a comprehensive onboarding framework covering pre-work through the first year
Customize the onboarding framework for different employee audiences including executives
Identify metrics to evaluate onboarding program results

Creating the Onboarding Steering Team A strong onboarding program is never built by one person alone. Ideally, your organization's onboarding program should be designed by a cross-functional team with representatives from different horizontal and vertical groups. This approach ensures buy-in and support from across the company, and it brings a diversity of perspectives that will make the program more effective and inclusive. Who Should Be on the Team? When assembling your steering team, consider including: **A project manager** to oversee execution and serve as team lead **Executive sponsors** to provide organizational authority and resources **Department managers** who understand the day-to-day realities of the roles being onboarded **Human resource specialists** to handle policy, compliance, and people processes **New employees** to offer a fresh perspective on what works **Employees who have been with the company 12–18 months** — recent enough to remember the onboarding experience **High-potential employees** who can offer insight into career development needs This committee should meet **at least annually** to review the program, examine feedback that has been collected, and make necessary updates. Keeping the program fresh, relevant, and aligned with both organizational and industry changes is critical to long-term success. Setting SPIRIT Goals Goals are a cornerstone of any onboarding program — for the program itself, for new employees, and for their managers. But goals only work when

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Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program

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Curriculum

Module 1: Defining Onboarding and Its Business Value

Module 2: Building the Onboarding Steering Team and Setting Goals

Module 3: Developing the Onboarding Framework

Module 4: Customizing, Measuring, and Branding the Program

Module 5: Employee Engagement, Creative Activities, and Best Practices

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