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All Aboard: Five Tips for Successful On-Boarding Programs (f/k/a Employee Orientation)

Another solid article from ERExchange.com on On-Boarding Programs. This time, the author, Kevin Wheeler, offers five solid tips for success with regard to such programs.

On-boarding programs (f/k/a employee orientation), I believe, are one of the current hot fads in HRM, but they make a great deal of sense to me as I remember some of my early experiences in new jobs!

Here are the five tips offered in this article; they are well-worth studying in greater depth:

Make the onboarding process formal but fun;

Good employee orientation and onboarding programs may extend over several months;

Use e-learning and the Internet extensively;

Educate managers about the need to provide meaningful discussion and reflective work experiences;

Assign mentors or coaches to each new employee for the first 90 days of employment.

Go here to read more details about the five tips for on-boarding programs.

Photo credit: Sherlock77 via flickr.

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  • Posted by Michael Harris
    on March 2, 2006

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