Employee Onboarding: From Entry-Level to Senior Executive

Onboarding is defined as the first 30 to 90 days when employees become valuable members of the organization and begin reaching desired levels of performance. This is different that new hire training, which can often extend months beyond the initial onboarding process.

The webinar shows how an effective onboarding process can be built around the three questions that all new employees have.

The first question is, "Can I do this job?" There are always doubts because this is a new situation with unique requirements.

Setting up opportunities for new hires to experience the job firsthand begins to build the required level of confidence needed.

The second question is, "Do I want to do this job?" In the hiring process, new employees are sold on the great things the job has to offer. When reality sets in, some new employees find that the downsides make the job undesirable and quit. In onboarding, the key is to help new employees reach that decision quickly rather than spending months or training time on someone who will quit.

The third question is, "Will I fit in?" This is a new work team. Onboarding needs to create activities to get to know the team and for the team to get to know the new employee. This can easily be accomplished in an effective onboarding process.

This webinar will provide a structure and process for answering these three questions which will lead to a quick and dynamic onboarding process.

• Onboarding Defined
• 3 Keys to Rapid Onboarding
• Activities to Include and to Leave Out
• Management Quick Start
• Difference Between Entry Level and Executive Onboarding

The Importance of Rapid Onboarding

How soon would you be confident assigning a new employee to work with your most valued customers? When do you know a new employee is likely to stay and be a productive member of your team? When do you know a new employee can be trusted to work without constant supervision?

New employees are still a gamble. Even with the best hiring process, there's no guarantee of success. There are plenty of downsides to employees who are slow to fit in or who never really fit in. Therefore, the goal of any successful onboarding process or program should be to get new employees up-to-speed and working with their team as fast as possible.

While there are a lot of ways to speed up onboarding pre-hire including making good hiring decisions for the purposes of this discussion, let's limit onboarding from day one until you comfortably feel a new employee is fitting in and well on the way to hitting performance targets. This is different than time to proficiency or time to productivity which, for many jobs, is months if not years away. Think of onboarding more in terms of making a big impact in the critical first 30 to 90 days.

• Human Resources
• Training
• Learning Managers/Executive

Steven Rosenbaum For more than 30 years, he has led successful Learning Paths initiatives for major corporations in manufacturing, sales, healthcare, customer service, finance, and leadership. He has developed and trained a network of Learning Path consultants and partners in the U.S. And internationally.

As an author, Steve has written 6 books including Learning Paths: Increase Profits by reducing the time it takes to get employees up-to-speed, Up to Speed Secrets of Reducing Time to Proficiency, Managing & Measuring Productivity, and Fair Employment Interviewing. He is also a contributor to the Trainer's Portable Mentor and the Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning. He has written more than 100 articles and 400 blog postings on training and development topics.

Steve has also spoken at or keynoted at many leading talent development organization conferences including the Association for Talent Development, the Chinese Society of Training and Development, and the International Society for Performance Improvement.