Onboarding in the First 10 Days: A Blueprint for Making New Hires Comfortable and Productive – Fast!

WHY ATTEND

Large companies invest in elaborate onboarding processes that nurture new hires, ensuring they get assimilated into to the culture and feel they’re succeeding in their new role. Small and medium-size businesses often can’t afford that investment, but the need is still there.

Fortunately, there are simple low-cost onboarding tactics that any manager can deploy, especially in the first critical 10 days.

This webinar will give HR executives and managers a blueprint for preventing onboarding disasters. It will review the assumptions that drive an effective onboarding plan and lay out tactical steps for making your new hires’ first 10 days the foundation of a long, productive career with your company.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Our speaker, Dr. B. Lynn Ware, will explain: 

• Why on Day One your new hires are 100% engaged – full of energy, hope and desire to succeed.
• What it feels like to be a new hire who is ineffectively onboarded (that is, to have all that energy, hope and desire sucked right out of you within days or weeks)
• A blueprint for the first 10 days that meets five key objectives:
• Makes news hires feels like they belong
• Reassures them that they’ll be using their skills and abilities in the pursuit of a meaningful goal
• Gives them a “quick win”
• Convinces them they will learn new things and enhance their career options
• Reinforces their decision to work at your company
• The critical importance of “Pre-Boarding” – that is, the prep work you can do before the employee’s first day on the job
• How to get buy-in for your onboarding objectives from multiple stakeholders – members of the new hire’s team, top management, other departments, shared services, etc.
• How to deal with special onboarding challenges, including top executives, remote workers and entry-level employees

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

B. Lynn Ware, Ph.D., is President and CEO of Integral Talent Systems Inc., based in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Ware is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist who has practiced for over twenty five years in the talent management field. She is the CEO of Integral Talent Systems, Inc., a Silicon Valley based global technology enabled talent management consulting firm focused on how to optimize corporations’ talent investment for greater financial return. Dr. Ware has broad experience consulting in the consumer products, financial services, health care, high tech, manufacturing and retail industries. Dr. Ware is frequently quoted on trends in employee retention and other talent management strategies in numerous publications such as the Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Network World, and ComputerWorld magazine, and has recently been featured several times on CNN as a national talent management expert.

Certification

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hour(s) through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) & Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).