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Tag: Orientation

  • Onboarding: Creating Connections to Coworkers and Culture

    Onboarding: Creating Connections to Coworkers and Culture

    The onboarding process can be one of the most overlooked areas for organizations needing a quick win in the overall employee experience. Instead of leveraging this process as a way to drive engagement and create a lasting impression, some organizations tend to deliver a subpar experience or forego the practice altogether. Employees want an onboarding…

  • Onboarding Tips for Managers

    Every once in a while I share things here that I’ve put out to our managers. Why? Because I know that many of you struggle with getting your managers on board in some areas, too! The message below is one that I recently passed to our supervisors in order to help them understand the end…

  • New Job Orientation for Remote Employees

    While we have plenty of resources for how to onboard new hires, there isn’t much info with regard to new job orientation for remote employees. How do you handle off site employee orientation? What do you say? How do you communicate? Today we’ll look at all that, plus I’ll share a few ideas on how…

  • Crafting a Welcome Letter to New Employees

    I ran across this new employee welcome letter example from some old files and had to share. The creator (Antoine) was the best manager out of dozens at a previous employer, and it was little things like this that made his people love him. I had no idea he was providing these documents to his…

  • Developing Your Team-Commitment Matters

    Developing your team the “Edward Jones” way For the past few months, my youngest brother has been going through the hiring process for the hardcore Edward Jones PASS program. I had the opportunity to sit and talk with him about the steps he took to get the position, and it honestly floored me at all…

  • New Hire Orientation eBook

    Onboarding. New hire orientation. If you’ve been through a bad experience, you know how important this stuff is. Conversely, if you’ve been through a great experience, you know how important it is to help you feel connected to the organization and people from the very beginning. Introducing the New Hire Orientation and Onboarding eBook Recently…

  • I have finally been oriented

    I am on the cusp of my six month “anniversary” with my current employer, and I got to attend an orientation session earlier this week. If I had to describe that experience with one word, it would be “amazing.” Seeing our VPs of HR and Operations go out to meet the new employees, field questions,…