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Session One: Course Overview
You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
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Assignment: Personal Learning Objectives
Course Overview
Session Two: Defining Onboarding
To start, participants will explore what onboarding is (and is not) and how it differs from orientation. Participants will also identify some of the business benefits of a successful onboarding program. To conclude the session, participants will discuss some factors for success and some issues that can lead to failure.
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What is Onboarding?
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Benefits for Your Business
A Recipe for Disaster
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Session Three: Creating the Onboarding Steering Team
This session will look at who should make up the team that will steer the onboarding program and what their role should be.
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Creating the Onboarding Steering Team
Session Four: Gathering Supporting Information
Next, participants will learn what key processes, programs and stakeholders should be included in the onboarding development process. Participants will also receive a list of questions that they can use to shape the program’s vision. Then, participants will practice creating a vision for a fictional company.
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Finding the Processes and People
Assignments
Putting it All Together
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Session Five: Setting Goals
In this session, participants will learn the six elements of a good goal, summarized by the SPIRIT acronym.
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Setting Goals
Session Six: Developing the Framework
To begin the second day, participants will create a full onboarding program outline for their fictional company.
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A General Framework
Pre-Work
Creating an Onboarding Plan Template
Semi-Annual and Annual Reviews
Session Seven: Creating an Onboarding Plan
To conclude the first day, participants will work on a personal onboarding plan for a fictional case study.
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Onboarding Plan Template
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Session Eight: Customizing the Framework
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Session Nine: Measuring Results
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Session Ten: Branding the Program
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Making the Onboarding Program All Your Own
Branding River Adventures
Session Eleven: Onboarding Executives
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Assignments
Session Twelve: Understanding Employee Engagement
In this session participants will learn about the Gallup studies on engagement, and what they can do to make sure employees are checked in.
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Understanding Employee Engagement
Session Thirteen: Ten Ways to Make Your Program Unique
A well-designed, unique program can be an ambassador for your company. This session will give participants some ideas for making their onboarding program stand out.
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Assignment 1 Going Above and Beyond
Assignments 2 Debrief
Session Fourteen: Fun and Games
Your onboarding program doesn’t have to be all work and no play, as long as employees are learning or building relationships while they are playing. In this session we’ll share some of our favorite onboarding and training games.
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Assignments
Session Fifteen: Case Study Analysis
To conclude the workshop, participants will review the case studies that they gathered for a pre-assignment and create a list of best practices.
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Assignments Group Case Studies
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Personal Action Plan
At the end of the workshop, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.
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Personal Action Plan
Recommended Reading List
Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program
About Lesson

You can exponentially increase the impact of your onboarding program with a strong brand. Just as with any product, a well-designed brand can:

  • Make a strong statement about what the onboarding program is
  • Bring all elements of the onboarding program together into one unified package
  • Make your onboarding program instantly recognizable
  • Increase your competitive advantage by making your recruiting program unique

Taking the time to create a well-designed brand also shows potential new employees that you take the hiring process seriously.

Managers, human resource representatives, senior executives, and other stakeholders should all take part in a branding process, perhaps led by a marketing specialist. The team will define the program name, a logo, a tag line, and some key images and themes that will be used in the program. The brand should, of course, tie in with your company’s brand and reflect what the program is really all about.

These elements should then be applied to everything related to the onboarding program, from hiring ads, to the onboarding plan template, to follow-up surveys.

 

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