What's New in Onboarding

Good onboarding builds commitment, confidence and competence in new hires. This 60-minute employee onboarding webinar shares today's best practices for structuring a new hire's first months so people contribute sooner.

You'll see how to turn a one-day event into a 90-day process, give candidates the tools to pre-board, and involve managers, buddies and team members so new employees feel supported. The session also looks at onboarding technology, including online gaming and mobile apps for tablets and smartphones, and how to design learning content for a gaming platform.

Finally, you'll learn how to measure the business impact of your onboarding process, with case examples and time for your questions.

• Design a 90-day onboarding process that gets new employees up to speed faster
• Use technology, including mobile apps and gaming, to streamline logistics and teach job skills
• Prepare candidates to pre-board before their first day
• Involve managers, buddies and team members using onboarding checklists
• Plan onboarding steps that raise retention and cut first-year turnover
• Measure the business impact of your onboarding program

• Turning your onboarding event into a 90-day process
• Designing a 90-day process that shortens the time to get new employees up to speed
• Helping new hires learn the required skills quickly and easily
• Using technology to streamline new hire logistics and make skills training engaging
• Providing a mobile app for tablets and smartphones to a virtual organization
• Designing content and learning activities for a gaming platform
• Giving candidates the tools to pre-board
• Involving key team members to build cohesion and support
• Using manager, buddy and new employee checklists
• Improving retention and reducing first-year turnover
• Measuring the business impact of your onboarding process
• Innovative case examples
• Your questions

Hiring strong people is only half the job. Poor onboarding can cost you the talent you worked hard to recruit. A well-planned process that matches what employees expect helps new hires become engaged, productive and successful quickly.

This session suits HR professionals and generalists, managers, supervisors, leaders, executives, talent management staff and retention consultants who want to improve new hire retention.

• Human Resource Professionals
• HR Generalists
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Leaders
• Executives
• Talent Management
• Retention Consultants

Dr. Ware is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and CEO of Integral Talent Systems, Inc (ITS). ITS is a global technology enabled talent management consulting firm specializing in bringing the science of talent management to the bottom line.

ITS is a pioneer in the field of attracting and retaining top talent, as the company was the first consulting firm dedicated to this workplace issue that began emerging in the U.S. during 1996 and has since become a global concern.

Dr. Ware is frequently engaged with corporate clients to provide guidance on how to create "employer of choice" environments, so that they can attract and keep the best talent in their respective industries.

ITS provides this guidance by continually conducting independent research in talent management, staying abreast of current corporate and workplace trends and best practices, and creating innovative products and services regarding this topic.

Dr. Ware has practiced for over 25 years in the talent management field, with a strong focus on how to increase employee productivity for the benefit of achieving business goals. She has acted as a consultant in this capacity for 180 of the Fortune 1000.

Dr. Ware is frequently quoted on trends in talent management strategies in numerous publications such as the Associated Press, Computer World magazine, Network World and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has been featured several times on CNN as a national talent management expert.