Branded Onboarding at Tween Brands: Technology and Coaching for ROI

Chicago, Illinois, May 2, 2012

Tween Brands, specialty retailer operating 800+ Justice stores, recognized the need for an onboarding experience emphasizing their strong corporate culture while upgrading from a paper-based process to a web-based one.  To update their outdated onboarding process, they partnered with Connect the Dots, to create a structured, yet flexible onboarding experience for internal promotions and external hires that represents their culture and talent management philosophy.    You will learn how they leveraged technology to measure impact and surface onboarding issues early as well as how to build the business case and integrate culture for a high-impact onboarding program.

Presenters:

Brenda Hampel, Partner, Connect the Dots

Jennifer Foster, HR Manager, Tween Brands

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2012 Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues - CONNECT2: Knowledge, Relationships and Solutions!

Houston, Texas, May 9, 2012

Now Hiring Millenials, Gen-Xers, and Boomers:  High Impact Onboarding for a Diverse Workforce

In this session, Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont, partners at Connect The Dots Consulting, define successful onboarding: What are best practices? How do you apply them to your organization? How do you identify and reach your audiences for onboarding? What does your workforce look like and what are their needs? How do you communicate effectively with each audience? How do you address the most common onboarding challenges for leaders and for all associates?  Through research, case studies and the experiences of Hampel and Lamont, organizations will take away knowledge about how to custom fit the onboarding experience to all of the generations represented in the modern workforce.

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2012 CHRA Human Resource Conference

Denver, Colorado, January 20, 2012

Now Hiring Millenials, Gen-Xers, and Boomers:  High Impact Onboarding for a Diverse Workforce

In this session, Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont, partners at Connect The Dots Consulting, defined successful onboarding: What are best practices? How do you apply them to your organization? How do you identify and reach your audiences for onboarding? What does your workforce look like and what are their needs? How do you communicate effectively with each audience? How do you address the most common onboarding challenges for leaders and for all associates?  Through research, case studies and the experiences of Hampel and Lamont, organizations took away knowledge about how to custom fit the onboarding experience to all of the generations represented in the modern workforce.

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HR Southwest (SHRM) Management Conference.

Fort Worth, TX, November 2011

Onboarding: Getting Your Managers Up to the Plate

We presented some techniques that can be used to engage managers in onboarding. There’s often a "push-pull" between HR Partners and managers regarding ownership and execution of onboarding.  It is important to show your managers what's in it for them, strategies for keeping onboarding simple, and how to get results.

Session attendees walked away be able to ...

1) Engage and leverage hiring managers in onboarding by applying the 5 key responsibilities.

2) Create and implement a hiring manager’s roadmap.

3) Measure the hiring manager's impact on your onboarding experience.

HR Southwest (SHRM) Management Conference

Fort Worth, TX, October 2010.

Onboarding Without Falling Overboard

In this presentation, we provided a roadmap for participants to build a business case and create a brand-right onboarding experience for their organization's new hires.  With a high-energy interactive approach, we included best-practices, recent onboarding data and case studies to an audience of over 90 professionals.

Participants feedback...

"Best session I attended."

"Great information! Learned some good feedback to go over with co-workers."

"Great speakers! Love the fast pace!"

CAI HR Management Conference

February 11-12, 2009, national-level quality HR conference in Raleigh - no other regional conference can match the content, value and convenience of this event. Two full days of national HR and business thought leaders delivering solutions that can be applied directly to your workplace.

Onboarding 101: Engaging Employees Right from the "Pre-Start"
Speakers: Erika Lamont, Connect the Dots Consulting and Brenda Hampel, Connect the Dots Consulting

Studies show that an effective onboarding program can increase employee retention by up to 25%. Successful onboarding delivers the right company information, support for building key relationships, and tools for providing critical feedback.

Workplace Application - This session provided tools needed to build, implement and measure a successful new hire onboarding process
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Onboarding Talent Summit

January, 26-28, 2009 • The Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA

Conference Overview

Effective Onboarding Strategies Guaranteed to Accelerate Productivity and Increase Retention

Implement progressive socialization strategies to accelerate engagement of valuable talent from day one

  • Implement cost-saving tools with your onboarding strategy to accelerate the time to productivity of new hires and increase retention
  • Apply employee performance metrics to your onboarding strategy to monitor the effectiveness of your orientation initiatives
  • Determine the right blend of programs, curriculum and delivery models necessary to achieve strategically aligned onboarding initiatives
  • Market your onboarding strategy internally to become the "go-to" provider for skill development and strategic organizational change

Pre-conference workshop presented by: Erika Lamont, Connect the Dots Consulting and Brenda Hampel, Connect the Dots Consulting

Onboarding 101: Engaging Employees Right from the “Pre-Start”
Studies show that an effective onboarding program can increase employee retention by up to 25%. Successful onboarding delivers the right company information, support for building key relationships and tools for providing critical feedback. An effective onboarding process provides support and resources to address the needs of the new hire and his/her personal network. Wherever you are on the continuum of developing your onboarding process, this workshop provide a framework to customize your strategy and tools to help you implement it.