Virtual and In-Person Onboarding Your New Hire: Policies, Practices, and Processes
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Date
Mar 26, 2021 -
Time
13:00 PM EST -
Duration
90 Min
Virtual and In-Person Onboarding Your New
Hire: Policies, Practices, and Processes
Overview:
We’re on a new world
now creating new challenges in the way we do our work including how we welcome
and engage our new hires virtually. We have new challenges now with the
pandemic – how do we onboard a new employee virtually?
Onboarding virtually
creates new opportunities that we may continue to use even when the pandemic is
not as much of a threat. Whether you call it Onboarding, Induction,
Enculturation, or New Employee Orientation (NEO), the process used to welcome
and train your new employees while capturing their excitement of a new job and
reducing their new job jitters is critical to their success. Conducting the
process virtually just adds a bit more innovation in providing the same
information. NEO is not a one day event, but rather a process that begins after
their acceptance of the job and extends through the first year of their
employment.
Studies show that the
new arrival's primary concerns are three things--my job, my boss, and my
coworkers. Dealing with new employee
jitters and uncertainties is a high priority in orientation programs. How long
this mental mayhem lasts may depend a great deal on employee orientation.
Onboarding is a strategy and a process that extends well beyond their first day
on the job. It is a critical process to
get the new hire off and running in their new environment – their new virtual
environment, their new virtual position, and with new virtual colleagues
enabling them to enjoy their work and their employer. Onboarding needs to include fun activities,
using “buddies” to streamline the new hire’s experience, beginning from the
point of the job offer. All of these efforts can be done virtually. It is one
of the most important elements an employer should invest in.
Session’s Highlights:
·
To describe onboarding
tactics for virtual new hires.
· To discuss the intricacies of onboarding the new hire including such things as getting them their new computer, technology, and having a virtual lunch, and dealing with I-9s
· To identify HR, the supervisor, and the Buddy’s roles in welcoming and training the new employee to a virtual environment
· To discuss the new employee’s role in her or his orientation
· To differentiate between the orientation to the organization and the orientation to the department
· To assess, develop, implement and evaluate your Onboarding strategy
· To examine virtual Onboarding best practices
· To assess, design, and develop, implement, and evaluate your department’s NEO strategy
What Will You Learn?
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Sample checklists for
the manager/supervisor, HR, and the Buddy are provided
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Tips on orienting the
virtual employee
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How to evaluate your
Onboarding process
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To discuss importance
of Checklists for what to accomplish the first day, first week, first month,
and the first 90 days.
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To list suggested
lists and topics for the onboarding portal
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To examine onboarding
portal systems
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To Tips on how to
select and utilize a Buddy
· Orientation Evaluation forms for the new hire, HR, the buddy, and management
· Tips on the manager-new hire “expectations” discussion
Who Should Attend?
· Business Owners
· Employers
· HR professionals
· Managers, Supervisors/Leads
· Office Managers
· Multi-state Employers
· Facilities Managers
· Workplace Compliance professionals
· Leadership
Dr. Susan Strauss is a national and international consultant, speaker, and trainer in organizational effectiveness and management development. She has established numerous onboarding/new employee orientation programs for both small and large organizations. Her clients are from business, education, healthcare, law, and government from both the public and private sector. Susan has authored over 30 book chapters, books, and articles. She has been featured on 20/20, CBS Evening News, and other national and international television and radio programs as well as interviewed for newspaper and journal articles.
Susan has her doctorate in organizational leadership, a master’s degree in community health, and is a former RN.
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