Overview
Did you know that most employees decide to leave a job within their first 18 months with an organization? When an employee does leave, it usually costs about three times their salary to replace them.
You can greatly increase the likelihood that a new employee will stay with you by implementing a well-designed onboarding program that will guide the employee through their first months with the company. This course explores the benefits of onboarding, show you how to design an onboarding framework, give you ways to customize the program for different audiences (including managers and executives), and demonstrate how to measure results from the program.
Learning Outcomes
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Define onboarding and describe how it is different from orientation
- Identify the business benefits of onboarding
- List the factors that contribute to a successful onboarding program
- Build a team to create an onboarding program
- Prepare a vision statement and goals for an onboarding program
- Design a framework for an onboarding program that includes program setup, various types of training, games, progress tracking, and follow-up
- Customize your onboarding framework
- Create a branded, unique program that will strengthen your company’s image and market position
- Identify which metrics you should track to evaluate program results
Course Outline
- 2.1: What is Onboarding?
- 2.2: Benefits for Your Business
- 2.3: A Recipe for Disaster
- 4.1: Finding the Processes and People
- 4.2: Personal Identification
- 4.3: Putting it All Together
- 4.4: Vision Summary Sample
- 6.1: A General Framework
- 6.2: Pre-Work
- 6.3: Creating an Onboarding Plan Template
- 6.4: Day One
- 6.5: Week One
- 6.6: Month One
- 6.7: Semi-Annual and Annual Reviews
- 10.1: Making the Onboarding Program All Your Own
- 10.2: Branding River Adventures
- 14.1: Let’s Get Creative!
- 14.2: Our Favorite Onboarding Games
