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Orientation and Training of New Employees

New employee orientation effectively integrates the new employee into your organization and assists with retention, motivation, job satisfaction, and quickly enabling each individual to become contributing members of the work team.
Onboarding
Onboarding is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization. Effective onboarding of new team members is one of the most important contributions any hiring manager or HR professional can make to long-term success. Onboarding done right drives new employee productivity, accelerates results, and significantly improves talent retention. Yet few organizations manage the pieces of onboarding well.
Orientation Vs. Integration
If done correctly, your new employee orientation can solidify the new employee’s relationship with your organization. Here's how to make sure your orientation integrates new employees into your company and makes them feel comfortable and welcome.
Employee Onboarding: One Chance for a Positive New Employee Experience
In the talent management universe, the new employee orientation and mainstreaming process is known as “employee onboarding.” Keeping in mind that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, your business should make absolutely sure that new hires feel welcomed, valued, and prepared for what lies ahead during your new employee orientation or onboarding process. Learn more.
Tips for a Better New Employee Orientation
Want to know what modern organizations are doing with new employee orientation? It's not your traditional signing of policy acknowledgements. Find out what's new in employee orientation.
Top Ten Ways to Turn Off a New Employee
New Employee Orientation is a critical factor in helping a new person develop a productive, lasting relationship with your organization. Learn the top ten ways to turn off a new employee.
Employee Orientation: Keeping New Employees on Board
You want your new employee to experience his new job as a major turn on. Here are tips, tools, and examples for new employee orientation processes that promote longevity and loyalty.
Day One Management
Starting off on the right foot, as a manager, can make or break your relationship with new employees. Find out more.
New Employee Training - Worth It?
The Guide to Management, John Reh, explores why you may want to invest in new employee training.
New Hire Orientation
Guide to Job Searching: Technical, provides a handy list to use in preparing to welcome your new hires.
Conducting Effective Orientation
This article explores the most important goals you will want to achieve with your new employee orientation.
New Employee Orientation
Orienting the new employee is a critical step in helping him adjust to the workplace and the job. This article provides tips for the process and the contents of orientation.
Orientation Toolkit
Dr John Sullivan provides 64 tips for effective new employee orientation. Excellent resource. Highly recommended!
Princeton New Employee Orientation
Useful checklist emphasizes that orientation is an ongoing process over several months after a new employee starts work in your organization.
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Your new employees deserve an effective orientation. This checklist is useful in highlighting needed information.
Survey of Companies Conducting NEO
The Training Clinic conducts surveys of organizations doing new employee orientation. Take a look at their most recent survey results to assess your own organization's process.
Twelve Steps to Effective New Employee Orientation
Include the family and share the corporate culture are two critical steps in new employee orientation. This article emphasizes that NEO is a process, not a solitary event. Check it out!

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