Success Strategies for Onboarding New Employees: Start Before the Start

A company’s onboarding practices should be a key aspect of regular business operations. With the high cost of employee turnover and recruiting, business leaders need to understand the dynamics of effectively bringing on new employees to ensure their success. Simply writing down a plan or taking new hires through the mere basics of hiring documents such as the employee handbook and policy sign-off’s will not help new employees to succeed. The key is to engage leaders and current employees to guide new hires on understanding, integrating, and contributing to the company.

This training is designed to help you create or upgrade your own company onboarding program to help your new hires to quickly get grounded, integrated, engaged – so that can actively contribute to your company’s initiatives.

• Describe the differences between onboarding and orientation.
• Review the benefits of effective onboarding: short-term and long-term.
• Explain onboarding as a business strategy (not simply as a human resources checkpoint).
• Explore the components of an onboarding plan, from pre-hire to first  year anniversary, to use in your own company process.
• Review case studies of successful onboarding strategies.

Hiring managers, human resources, and business leaders are understandably relieved, excited, and optimistic when a new employee is hired. But there’s still important steps to take so that your new hire feels welcome and prepared to jump into their job. Simply put, the better and faster they’re integrated into the company, the more quickly they’ll be able to successfully contribute to organizational success.

• Human resources professionals – all levels
• Executives: CEO, COO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CHRO
• Business owners and leaders
• Talent Management professionals and recruiters

Melveen Stevenson is the CEO and founder of M.S. Elemental, LLC, a human resources and business advisory firm. As a certified HR professional with a background in accounting and finance, she helps companies to navigate the human resources “jungle” of compliance, human capital, and leadership challenges. In doing so, she empowers companies to strengthen their infrastructure from the inside out, specifically through leadership development, operations, training, employee engagement, and executive coaching.

Melveen speaks on key topics to empower companies with the latest research and best practices for increasing engagement, enhancing leadership presence, and optimizing diverse workforce groups.

Over the last 20 years, Melveen has held leadership positions in human resources operations, supply chain, and talent management at international companies in food manufacturing, medical devices, and consumer products. She has spent most of her career in California, and has expertise in the state’s complicated employment regulations.

Melveen is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP) and the Human Resources Certification Institute (SPHR).  She is also a faculty member at California State University-Dominguez Hills.