Onboarding turns the key, opening the door to talent development Investing in onboarding means investing in employee success and the business of the future. Effective onboarding programs both increase and facilitate employee engagement and business results; onboarding shortens the employee learning curve by increasing job knowledge. If you need to design, revise, or expand your company’s onboarding program, Effective Onboarding offers a simple-to-follow path forward. Talent development experts Norma Dávila and Wanda Piña-Ramírez combine their significant consulting experience and the latest onboarding trends to create a single source for onboarding best practices, job aids, templates, and checklists. Also included are examples and stories based on real-life situations the authors have encountered in their practice. While many books about onboarding limit their approach to employee recruitment and selection, this book is more comprehensive, following employees through their first year on the job. Effective Onboarding clarifies the differences between orientation and onboarding, describes how to build a business case for your onboarding program, and guides you to design, implement, evaluate, and sustain the program that’s right for your organization. Effective Onboarding is part of a new ATD series, What Works in Talent Development, which addresses the most critical topics facing today’s talent development practitioners. Each book in the series is written for trainers, by trainers, and offers a clear, step-by-step path to solve real issues.

"Mastering Employee Onboarding," a manual for an animated video-based course and an integral part of our HR 9-Book series entitled "Talent Management and Workforce Development," is your key to streamlined onboarding for increased productivity and employee satisfaction. Dive into purpose, preparation, checklists, program development, and post-onboarding strategies. Tailored for millennials, this guide unveils secrets to engage, mentor, allocate work, and set expectations. Elevate your onboarding game and unlock a workforce ready for success, a step-by-step guide supported by a practical case study. Chapters: Chapter 1 (Getting Started): Introduction sets the stage, outlining guide objectives. Chapter 2 (Onboarding Purpose): Delve into the significance of onboarding, exploring startup costs, anxiety, and realistic expectations. Chapter 3 (Onboarding Overview): Uncover the essence of onboarding, its value, and fostering a welcoming environment, supported by an essential first-day checklist. Chapter 4 (Preparing for Onboarding): Promote professional onboarding practices, ensuring clarity, strategic mentor designation, and effective training. Chapter 5 (Onboarding Millennials): Understand millennials, distinguishing their characteristics, and crafting tailored onboarding approaches, embracing authenticity, and informal settings. Chapter 6 (Onboarding Checklist): Navigate pre-arrival, arrival, first-week, and first-month onboarding checklists, ensuring a seamless and thoughtful onboarding journey. Chapter 7 (Checklist for Millennials): Tailor checklists specifically for millennials across pre-arrival, arrival, first day, first week, and first month. Chapter 8 (Developing the Onboarding Program): Build trust, foster communication, and understand the pivotal roles of HR and managers in the onboarding process, with key characteristics of engaged employees. Chapter 9 (Engaging Millennials): Explore creating an informal program, the power of one-on-one engagement, and the role of HR and managers in onboarding millennials. Chapter 10 (Post-Onboarding Support): Initiate early connections, nurture ongoing engagement, strategically schedule follow-ups, and understand the crucial responsibilities of mentors in the post-onboarding phase. Chapter 11 (Post-Onboarding for Millennials): Dive into one-on-one check-ins, regular follow-ups, scheduling considerations, mentoring dynamics. Chapter 12 (Setting Expectations): Define position requirements, recognize areas for enhancement, and communicate expectations verbally and in writing. Chapter 13 (Millennials Expectations): Explore specific instructions, fostering growth, verbalizing clear guidelines, and formalizing expectations for millennials. Chapter 14 (Resiliency and Flexibility): Understand resiliency, enhance mindset transformation, explore flexibility in recruitment and retention, and follow practical steps. Chapter 15 (Mentoring Millennials): Dive into active mentorship, successive mentoring, leveraging millennials' exploratory drive for success, and gain insights. Chapter 16 (Work Allocation): Establish guiding principles for work assignments, explore authoritative, apple-picking, and team collaboration methods. Chapter 17 (Work Allocation for Millennials): Tailor work allocation strategies for millennials, emphasizing clear structure, specific benchmarks, and nurturing dynamic work dynamics. Chapter 18 (Providing Feedback): Uncover qualities of effective feedback, tools for delivery, informal and formal feedback. Chapter 19 (Feedback for Millennials): Explore feedback attributes for millennials, leverage informal and formal feedback, and understand its significance. Chapter 20 (Wrapping Up): Summarize key takeaways, words from the wise, and outline next steps.

The book provides a clear framework for managers to improve the onboarding process. The authors have developed an easy to use model and process for onboarding which maps out 6 dimensions which can be used to design and implement a systematic organizational process.

This practical guidebook presents an infrastructure for training library staff, starting with a robust onboarding process and continuing through a staff member's entire duration at an institution. Because library services and resources can change rapidly, ongoing training is an important aspect of library operations. Training can be a particular challenge at large, multi-branch library systems, because it can be difficult to ensure all staff are able to receive the relevant information. Written for library managers and training leaders, A Complete Guide to Training Library Staff presents a comprehensive lifecycle for staff development with a focus on tools and techniques to build a sustainable training program, set staff up for success in their positions, and develop a positive and supportive community across the library. Authors Emily Leachman and A. Garrison Libby spearheaded their library's movement to largely online trainings, which are inclusive of staff at all branch locations. This practical guidebook helps managers and trainers develop a comprehensive plan that allows new staff to quickly become acquainted with the operations of the library, provides ongoing training to make staff aware of new procedures and services, and creates a collaborative and supportive training environment to empower staff to learn and lead.

This guide is an essential resource for professionals tasked with managing recruitment and onboarding processes within an organization. Whether you are directly involved in recruiting new staff or responsible for coordinating the process, this book provides a thorough understanding of the skills and knowledge required to effectively manage these essential HR functions. The book begins with an exploration of existing recruitment and onboarding policies and procedures, guiding readers on how to identify and evaluate them in the context of their organization. It delves into assessing technology options to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment processes, providing practical advice on selecting and implementing tools that streamline hiring workflows. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to updating and refining policies and procedures to align with organizational requirements. Readers will learn how to obtain support from relevant stakeholders and create or adjust forms and documents that underpin these policies. Effective communication and training strategies are emphasized to ensure that all relevant staff are well-informed and capable of adhering to updated procedures. The book also covers critical aspects of human resource planning, including determining future HR requirements in collaboration with stakeholders and ensuring that position descriptors are current and accurately used throughout the recruitment process. It provides detailed guidance on advertising vacant positions in compliance with legislation and organizational policies, consulting with specialists when necessary, and adhering to selection procedures that meet legal and organizational standards. Additional chapters address the importance of timely and accurate job offers and contracts, providing new appointments with relevant advice, and ensuring that onboarding processes are consistently applied across the organization. The book also covers the management of probationary employees, the provision of feedback, and the collection of participant and stakeholder feedback on the onboarding process. Finally, readers are equipped with strategies for updating onboarding policies and procedures based on feedback, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals. This book is an invaluable tool for HR professionals seeking to optimize their recruitment and onboarding practices and contribute to the overall success of their organization.

The rapidly transforming environment that we live in has made human resource development (HRD) all the more necessary for the success of today’s organizations. HRD initiatives help their organizations by developing employees who assist their organizations in not only surviving, but thriving in our increasingly global world. Today’s best practice or benchmarked organizations and their HRD professionals continue to recognize the importance of employee learning, knowledge, skills and motivation to organizational success. This recognition increasingly opens many doors as organizational leaders accept the fact that HRD initiatives can be used to ensure that organization members have what it takes to successfully meet the demands that confront them and their organizations. This book takes the position that HRD can demonstrate how their initiatives help to develop a superior workforce so that the organization and its individual employees can accomplish their strategic and operational goals in service to their clients or customers. This book is written with the belief that HRD professionals have many opportunities to learn, change and find ways both in and outside of the workplace to contribute to the development of learning organizations as we move further into the 21st century. A major point of this book is that HRD will continue to become more and more important to organizational success when one considers the increased responsibilities HRD professionals have taken on during and post- the COVID pandemic. The primary audience for this book is practicing HRM and HRD professionals, and other organizational leaders. The book provides proven ideas important to demonstrating the value of HRD. From a practical viewpoint, it is based on actual experience, a strong research base, and accepted practices presented in an easy to read form. A second target audience is students of HRD and HRM who are preparing for careers in this important field. This book will help them develop a solid foundation to the study of HRD practices or initiatives that are key to HRD success regardless of the type of organization. A third target audience is managers or leaders at all levels of an organization who are expected to take on a number of HRD responsibilities (e.g., as trainers, coaches, mentors, change agents, and so on) while regularly partnering with HRD professionals. It offers these individuals a firsthand look at what they should expect of their HRD functions or areas and how they can effectively work with HRD professionals in their organizations to achieve the organizations strategic goals by getting the most out of its human people.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2020), hosted by The University of Brighton on 24-25 September 2020. The Conference Chair is Panagiotis Fotaris and the Programme Chairs are Dr Katie Piatt and Dr Cate Grundy, all from University of Brighton, UK.

MASTER THE “4 PILLARS” OF SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING AND CAPTURE THE ONBOARDING MARGIN Fact: One-third of all external hires are no longer with the organization after two years. Most of them begin job-searching after six months.What can you do about it? In a word: onboarding, the fastest-growing human resources tool in the world today, although poorly understood, subject to narrow definitions, and with limited codified best practice understanding and management rigor. Global consultants Mark Stein and Lilith Christiansen have studied and worked with leading companies on the topic, and they've synthesized their work into one complete, ready-to-use system, incorporating case learnings from Fortune 500 companies and other forward-thinkers. With Successful Onboarding, you can: Realize the best from your talent from the get-go-without wasting time. Rewrite the employee-employer compact-to everyone's advantage. Acclimate new hires to your culture-without scaring them off. Assimilate new employees of all backgrounds-yet benefit from their unique skills. Reduce time-to-productivity-while increasing the level of productivity. Address the specific needs of individual hiring groups-cost-effectively. Make improvements at the systemic level-with gains realized with regularity. While many companies have become very good at recruiting, today's orientation programs fall woefully short and impact your bottom-line potential. Successful Onboarding provides you with not only the business case but also a systemic approach to the entire process, from beginning to end. You'll be amazed how significantly you can increase new hires' productivity and increase the strategic impact and appreciation of your HR function. You'll discover the most effective ways to share your vision, offer early career support, and strengthen your strategic position, intent, and direction. Along the way, you'll hear fascinating inside stories-the good and the bad-from Apple, Starbucks, Netflix, Microsoft, Baird, Bank of America, John Deere, and dozens of other industry leaders. In the end, it's all about people. When your employees are effectively on board and your system is supporting their success, your company is on track to even greater performance. visit author's website for more information http://onboardingmargin.com

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