About 30 percent of employees leave within their first year, and that turnover is expensive. This 60-minute onboarding best practices webinar shows how a structured first year gets new hires productive faster and keeps them longer.

Good hiring can be undone by a disorganized orientation. A strong program integrates new employees through socialization, acculturation, training and coaching, so they understand their role and feel connected. The source research says formal onboarding raises the chance of keeping a new hire for at least three years by 69 percent, and one study found employees were productive two months sooner.

Millennials bring particular needs, but onboarding that works for them generally works for everyone.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Effective onboarding helps employees become productive sooner, raises engagement and improves retention, giving companies a competitive advantage. You'll see how the best programs begin during recruitment and run systematically through the first year, with a cost-effective plan you can adapt.

The session suits HR professionals, leaders, supervisors and organizational development staff.

AREA COVERED

• The purpose and benefits of a strong onboarding program
• The five key components of a best-practice onboarding program
• The four C's: compliance, clarification, culture and connection
• Eight tips for better millennial onboarding
• Applying gamification to onboarding, why and how
• Structuring a full onboarding plan
• Nurturing millennials from the start and getting them to full potential quickly
• Five metrics to measure effectiveness
• Building connections with new hires
• How retention interviews support onboarding
• Using technology to modernize your program
• Best practices, problems and pitfalls to avoid, and tips to make your program more effective
• Coaching and mentoring questions to build engagement and loyalty
• An onboarding program assessment and a list of 100+ onboarding best practices

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Explain the purpose and benefits of a strong onboarding program
• Describe the five key components and the four C's of onboarding
• Apply tips and gamification to improve millennial onboarding
• Structure a first-year onboarding plan that starts during recruitment
• Measure onboarding effectiveness with five metrics
• Use coaching questions, retention interviews and technology to strengthen engagement

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• Human Resources professionals
• Leaders
• Supervisors
• Organizational development