Onboarding Best Practices for Millennial and All Employees

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.

• 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

• 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

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.

• Human Resources professionals
• Leaders
• Supervisors
• Organizational development

Bob Verchota, SPHR, is the President and owner of RPVerchota & Associates, a human resources and management practices consulting firm. He has over 30 years of human resources and operational leadership experience. His most recent corporate assignments include serving as VP Support Services, VP of Ancillary Services and Human Resources, and VP Human Resources. Focus areas include organization change and employee development, talent acquisition, risk management, compensation and benefits, labor and employee relations, performance improvement, and other operational issues. 

Academic pursuits include an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, graduate degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA), and doctoral work in Organization Development EdD (abd). He has taught at the technical, baccalaureate, and masters levels in several colleges and universities.