Comprehensive On-Boarding

The days of the traditional orientation in a room with other new hires is a fading practice. Especially when most of your talent is virtual, or when talent returns from leave or retirement, onboarding must be virtual, engaging and connect people to critical information and resources they need. How do organizations seamlessly integrate, onboard and engage contract talent, a virtual workforce such as stay at home mom's, and re-board talent returning to the company? The litmus test for successful onboarding of virtual talent and seamlessly integrating them into your company is when customers think they are talking to headquarters! You'll hear how to prepare your organization to embrace the opportunities of onboarding virtual talent and how to successfully tackle inherent challenges. more »

When new and re-deployed leaders are asked to ramp up within 30 days, and their engagement, productivity and retention is on the line, effective onboarding delivers. Whether a leader is hired or re-deployed internally, a new leader has a huge impact on talent. Organizations focus on supporting executive effectiveness beginning with customized onboarding.

With each hello exchanged, every key introduction is critical to fostering meaningful relationships. For organizations who measure time to productivity, onboarding milestones correlate with performance and development goals and impact achieved in the first year. Of course all this success depends on coordination amongst multiple stakeholders. If you have responsibility for new and re-deployed leadership talent having high impact, this webcast is for you! more »

Most onboarding is designed for those coming into an organization from the outside. Joining a new department/business unit or taking on a new leadership role presents many of the same challenges as joining a new organization/company. Increasingly, companies are adopting a similar strategy to set the stage for success of their internal talent advancing from within. Yet, there are some important differences.

Join us to explore what leading corporations are doing to ensure the success of those taking on new roles promoted from within. Our presenter has just revised his best-selling book on the subject to explicitly include a new chapter discussing this very subject. Those listening in will learn now, what others will be reading in March 2009. more »

As organizations place greater importance on retaining, engaging, motivating and developing talent, formal onboarding strategies and processes from pre- through post-hire are becoming a competitive necessity. While 86% of organizations agree that employees decide to stay within the first six months of signing on, 61% either don't offer a formal onboarding program or end their onboarding program within one month (Aberdeen 2008). The pressure to retain talent and further productivity has never been greater, and is driving the vast majority of organizations to take a more strategic and proactive twist far beyond traditional employee orientations to set the stage for performance deliverables. This webcast will cover Best-in-Class practices in onboarding from 800 global organizations recently surveyed by the Aberdeen Group. HCI members attending will receive a complimentary copy of this latest Aberdeen Research, "All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Techniques and Strategies."

Don't miss these webcast take aways:

1. Business pressures driving organizations to pursue comprehensive onboarding within integrated talent management

2. How implementing process and technologies together can enable desired performance improvement metrics.

3. Benchmark your own company's practices and plan steps for success, to move your company from laggard status to industry average or from industry average to best-in-class

4. A complimentary copy of this latest Aberdeen Research "All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Techniques and Strategies" more »