Creating a Great Onboarding Experience
38mBeginner2025-01-17
Authors

Catherine Mattice Zundel
Professional consultant and trainer specializing in corporate culture
Course details
Onboarding is the event that sets the tone for a new employee, ensuring new hires have a great first experience with their new company and that they receive all the critical information they need to get started in their new job. This course shows you how to ensure both those things. Instructor Catherine Mattice takes HR reps through all aspects of creating a great new hire experience—starting with the details to include and ranging all the way to the employee’s experience.
Learning objectives
Identify what orientation information to include.
Evaluate what people should be included in the orientation experience.
Create an onboarding experience that keeps company values in mind.
Develop both in-person and remote onboarding experiences.
Evaluate what additional training will be needed, post-onboarding.
Learning objectives
Identify what orientation information to include.
Evaluate what people should be included in the orientation experience.
Create an onboarding experience that keeps company values in mind.
Develop both in-person and remote onboarding experiences.
Evaluate what additional training will be needed, post-onboarding.
Skills covered
Talent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The magic of onboarding new hires
1. Onboarding Is More Than Orientation
- 02 - Onboarding and its connection to retention
- 03 - Three facets of an effective onboarding program
- 04 - Onboarding is a group effort
- 05 - Creating an onboarding program with your core values in mind
2. How to Wow New Hires with Onboarding
- 06 - VIP treatment on the first day
- 07 - Creating a stellar buddy system
- 08 - Training your new hire
- 09 - Using technology in onboarding
- 10 - Onboarding activities that make new hires feel valued and celebrated
- 11 - Onboarding remote versus in-person
3. After the Onboard
- 12 - Overcoming onboarding challenges
- 13 - Measuring the success of your onboarding
Conclusion
- 14 - Keep onboarding fluid