Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program Course Outline

Onboarding: The Essential Rules for a Successful Onboarding Program

How to Use This Guide

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: Defining Onboarding

What is Onboarding?

Benefits for Your Business

A Recipe for Disaster

Session Three: Creating the Onboarding Steering Team

Session Four: Gathering Supporting Information

Finding the Processes and People

Personal Identification

Putting it All Together

Vision Summary Sample

Session Five: Setting Goals

Session Six: Developing the Framework

A General Framework

Pre-Work

Creating an Onboarding Plan Template

Day One

Week One

Month One

Semi-Annual and Annual Reviews

Session Seven: Creating an Onboarding Plan

Session Eight: Customizing the Framework

Session Nine: Measuring Results

Session Ten: Branding the Program

Making the Onboarding Program All Your Own

Branding River Adventures

Session Eleven: Onboarding Executives

Session Twelve: Understanding Employee Engagement

Session Thirteen: Ten Ways to Make Your Program Unique

Session Fourteen: Fun and Games

Let’s Get Creative!

Our Favorite Onboarding Games

Session Fifteen: Case Study Analysis

Recommended Reading List

Post-Course Assessment

Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys

Personal Action Plan