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Effective Onboarding: Building Confidence and Commitment in the First 90 Days

Course Description:

You only get one chance to make a good first impression. The same holds true for how you treat new hires. 

The first 30 to 90 days of a new employee’s experience are crucial to long-term retention and productivity.  In fact, research shows the quicker employees are integrated into their new workplace, the faster they’ll achieve returns for their employer. 

You’ve made a considerable investment in hiring the best, why risk staggering costs of repeated turnover through an ineffective onboarding process. Learn how to engage new workers into your company’s culture, help them set and achieve goals in their new positions, and ensure they connect with the people, tools and resources they need to be successful.

Let CCM show you how to successfully organize a new hire experience that builds confidence and commitment.  In this must-attend audio conference, you’ll discover how to upgrade your onboarding protocols to maximize your retention potential, and dramatically increase employee loyalty and overall productivity.  You’ll also learn:

• A step-by-step approach to create a structured onboarding program and overall strategy
• What the first day should entail for each new employee without making them feel “processed”
• How to accelerate engagement of valuable talent from day one
• What you should be doing with each new recruit within the first 90 day
• Key techniques to engage employees with a personalized onboarding experience
• Strategies to make orientation exciting, interactive and interesting
• How  to measure the business success or failure of your onboarding program
• Creative ways to use technology to streamline and accelerate orientation
• How to make the business case and get senior management on board with onboarding
• Techniques to improve new hire retention and build your brand as an employer of choice

Featured Faculty:

Michel A. Buffet, PhD, Founding Owner, ETM Consulting Group

Michel advises business leaders on how to identify, develop, and engage executive talent to create and sustain competitive advantage for their organizations.  He has more than ten years of consulting experience in the areas of human capital strategy, executive assessment and coaching, onboarding and talent management metrics.  Over the years he has worked with over fifty different companies, many of which are Global Fortune 1000 companies.  His consulting approach includes establishing trusting and collaborative relationships with his clients, gaining a deep understanding of their opportunities and challenges, and showing a bias for practical solutions and demonstrable results.  Following are samples of his most recent engagements:

• Partnered with the Chief Talent Officer of a Fortune 50 consumer products company in designing and conducting a full review of their global executive talent management processes and programs.  Went on to lead the in-depth assessment of two global talent development and recruitment programs and created a Program Dashboard to monitor the impact of the two programs.
• Supported the CEO of a large Midwestern Healthcare company in the assessment and development of his senior leadership team.  Provided fast-cycle coaching to a select number of team members.
• Worked with the VP of HR and senior management of a global $20B company to define their new leadership competency model and design a new 360-degree assessment process for high-potentials.
• Designed and conducted dozens of organizational and leadership assessments, including 360-degree feedback, executive team assessments and coaching, personality assessments (e.g., MBTI, Hogan, etc.)

Michel Buffet recently founded ETM Consulting Group, a consulting firm that works with senior leaders and Human Resources executives on strategic talent management solutions. Before founding ETM Consulting Group, Michel was a Partner at Oliver Wyman and for over 10 years, worked in the areas of organizational design, team and board effectiveness, executive talent management, and organizational assessment.  Prior to this, Michel conducted cross-cultural training and development at the Training Management Corporation and at the Prudential Intercultural Services.  Healso worked on various applied measurement projects at Citibank Bankcards and for the Department of Personnel of New York City.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

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Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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