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A thoughtful new employee orientation program, coupled with an employee handbook that communicates workplace policies, can reduce turnover and save your organization thousands of dollars. Whether your company has two employees or a thousand employees, don’t leave employee retention to chance. Give them what they need to feel welcome, know why they were hired, and know how to do the job. This two-day workshop will help you teach participants how to build an effective orientation program.

Learning objectives for participants include:
- Understand how important an orientation program is to an organization.
- Identify the role of the human resource department in the orientation program.
- Recognize how the commitment curve affects both new employees and their managers.
- Know what companies can do to deliver their promise to new employees.
- Determine the critical elements of effective employee training.
- Establish the importance of having an employee handbook for new and long-term employees.

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Target Audience

The Courseware Company’s products are typically purchased by IT and business skills training providers, schools and colleges or corporate training departments. Content can also be bought and customised by freelance trainers for their own customers.

Prerequisites

No previous experience or training in employee training is required, though students should possess basic numeracy and literacy and ideally have a basic understanding of using computers and software applications, such as Microsoft Word.

 

What You Actually Receive

  • Student manual Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs. 1
  • Trainer manual Fully customisable with additional information for trainers. 2
  • Ice breakers and class activities Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students. 3
  • PCQ - Pre-Course Questionnaires Fully customisable. Ensures you can get a fully understanding of your delegates expectations, requirements and current skill levels before they attend the course. 4
  • Content overview Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers. 5
  • Presentations Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer. 6
  • Additional reading... Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course. 7
  • Sales information sheets Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers. 8

The Courseware Company (established in the early 1990s and part of gtslearning) is the only European authorised reseller of Velsoft courseware materials and print licences. Velsoft offers fully customisable training materials, delivered online and fully supported with instructor resources and student study tools.

To get started, just open this training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered 'off-the-peg' and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

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  • Proven Our course materials are used in hundreds of training centres around the world. Every course is fully beta tested and validated in the classroom before undergoing a full production release. 3
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  • Totally flexible Courses can be modified to meet specific requirements. Sections can be removed. New content added. One or more titles can be combined. Whatever your training requirements, our courseware can help you meet that need. 6
  • Unlimited users Content is sold on a site licence basis. You can train as many staff or employees at that location as you like. Forever! 7
  • Buy once. Use forever! You’re buying a perpetual licence. One payment gives you an unlimited site licence for use as long as you need it. 8
  • No limits! Unlike some content providers, our licence enables you to reprint the courseware as many times as you like. 1 student or 100,000, it doesn’t matter... 9

Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start Training Outline

Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.

Finding, Hiring, and Keeping Good People To begin, participants will discuss the organizational activities required to find, hire, and keep good people, and how those activities tie into an orientation process.

Building Employee Commitment Next, participants will learn about the four pillars of commitment: clarity, competence, influence, and appreciation.

Perception During this session, participants will explore how perceptions and appearances can affect orientation.

Fast Track Orientation This session will discuss what kind of orientation is best for short term employees.

Designing a Successful Orientation Program Next, participants will think about their own experiences with orientation. They will combine this with a list of common orientation mistakes to develop a framework for designing a successful program.

The Eight Orientation Habits of World-Class Employers During this session, participants will learn what world-class employers do to make their orientation program a success.

Obtaining Buy-In This session will give participants some ways to get buy-in from supervisors for the orientation program.

The Commitment Curve Next, participants will learn about the employer/employee commitment curve, and how to make the orientation process work with it.

Characteristics of a Successful Orientation Process During this session, participants will discuss the top ten characteristics of a successful orientation process and how they can incorporate those items into their organization.

Employee Training Participants will spend this session completing Kolb's learning style inventory and learning how it applies to employee orientation and training.

Addressing Learner Needs and Expectations This session will teach participants how to define training expectations.

Working with External Providers Next, participants will discuss what to consider when working with external providers during orientation.

Adult Learning This session will introduce participants to the principles of adult learning. Participants will also discuss how to incorporate these principles into orientation and training.

How to Build and Sustain Interest During this session, participants will learn how to motivate their employees during orientation.

Bridging the Generation Gap Next, participants will take a brief look at resolving generational issues.

Creating Employee Manuals During this session, participants will discuss what should be included in employee handbooks.

A Checklist for Success To wrap up the day, participants will create a checklist of necessary items for their orientation. Then, they will work with a partner to brainstorm ways to improve their current orientation process.

Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.

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