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Here are descriptions of some of our recent webinars: Coaching Up: Identifying and Developing Your Impact Employees in 2012 The 2012 economic news is “cautiously optimistic” and organizations are responding by increasing their focus on recruiting, retaining and developing the best talent to gain a competitive edge. It is critical to strike a balance between developing and retaining existing talent and bringing in new talent. This is particularly challenging when both managers and human resources are stretched to the max. How can managers and HR partners deal with the day-to-day operations, and build a strong bench for the future? Connect the Dots cofounders Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont discussed how to build the business case for developing your key talent; how to create a strategy to build that case and key components of measuring ROI for your efforts. Connect The Dots' On-Target Coaching model offered a framework for the discussions. Webinar deliverables left the participants with information to:
This webinar was presented by Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont, authors of The Perfect Phrases Book: New Employee Orientation and Onboarding - part of the best selling business series.
High Impact Onboarding for The New Diverse Workforce Now Hiring Millennials, Gen-Xers and Boomers: Five years ago, businesses were preparing for the great exodus of the baby boomer generation from the workforce. Then, the economy took its nosedive, and many of the boomers opted to stay firmly planted in the labor force. HR departments are now faced with a talent pool more diverse than ever: Older and experienced workers are mixed with young and energetic employees, all from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, races, religions and management styles. Connect the Dots cofounders Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont discussed how organizations can create and/or tailor their onboarding programs to maximize the experience for employees of any demographic. Through research, case studies and the experiences of Hampel and Lamont, webinar participants took away knowledge of how to custom fit the onboarding experience to all of the generations represented in the modern workforce. Specific take-aways included: 1)Define successful onboarding: What are best practices? How do you apply them to your organization? 2) How to 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? 3) How to address the most common onboarding challenges for leaders and for all associates
Making Onboarding a Key Initiative in 2012: 5 Strategies to Get You There If onboarding is on your list of 2012 initiatives, then this webinar will be the first step in moving it to the top of that list. We’ll give you the 5 most important strategies for preparing your organization to launch or re-launch your onboarding experience successfully. Today’s HR professionals are stretched beyond capacity and need the most effective and efficient methods to deploy programs for their organizations . We will outline the critical elements that you need to prepare your organization to embrace onboarding as one of your 2012 key initiatives. Organizations can no longer afford not to have onboarding as a part of their employee engagement strategy, and a way to retain top talent. Companies with formal onboarding processes are 2 ½ times more likely (than those with an informal or no process) to experience employee performance improvements within three months. -Feb 2010 Aberdeen Report Both HR professionals in organizations that have onboarding programs and those that don’t, but are planning to, will benefit from this discussion of how to get ahead in 2012.
Resolving 7 Common Onboarding Challenges Solutions for navigating the ups and downs of new employee onboarding Learn how to avoid and manage the 7 most common onboarding challenges your new employees and managers typically face. Today’s new hires are eager to establish and prove themselves right away-- AND hiring managers expect them to “hit the ground running”. We will outline practical strategies for catching these challenges and successfully getting things back on track. “Companies that leave onboarding to chance, experience failure rates in excess of 50 percent when it comes to retaining new talent.” -Egon Zehnder International This webinar showed you how to give your new hires and hiring managers the onboarding tools and experiences that set them up for long-term success. This webinar was presented by Brenda Hampel & Erika Lamont, authors of The Perfect Phrases Book: New Employee Orientation and Onboarding - part of the best selling business series.
Coaching for Performance: Guiding Your Managers Through Difficult Conversations Employee performance issues are alive, well and multiplying in almost every organization. Some of the contributing factors are: * Managers are over-worked, and under significant pressure to deliver results. * HR is very lean and often focused on large initiatives or “pushing out programs” and do not have the capacity to focus on the basics of performance management. So managers are left to figure it out on their own, while stretched HR professionals can only offer minimal support. In this webinar you will learn: * how to apply our proven 4-Step Performance Management Model to address your employee performance issues * how to start those more difficult conversations between managers and employees that are often avoided or handled ineffectively * how to measure the impact on the organization
Onboarding: Taking it To The Next Level Learn how to take your onboarding program to the next level. Many onboarding programs have been in place for 2-4 years and need to be updated to continue to meet the needs of the organization and new hires. This webinar will focus on the key elements that recent research has found to have an impact. You will learn: * How to leverage the "pre-boarding" phase of onboarding * How to connect with each of your employee populations * How to use onboarding technology and social media effectively * How to measure the impact of your program
Onboarding: An Employee Engagement Tool Learn about the connection between an effective onboarding program and employee engagement. Human resources leaders have begun to understand the link between a new hires’ experience in his first six months and the short/long term connection he feels about both his job and the organization.
--The Aberdeen Group 2010 This webinar told you how to build feedback into your onboarding program—at the right times—and about the right things that contribute to highly engaged employees.
Onboarding and the Manager Learn about how to engage hiring managers in the onboarding process. There is often a "push-pull" relationship between HR Partners and hiring managers when it comes to ownership and execution of the onboarding process. This webinar outlines how to engage your hiring managers in onboarding by showing them what's in it for them and how onboarding is connected to the business. The last thing hiring managers want is another binder from HR for their new hire. Learn strategies for keeping the onboarding process simple and making it easy for managers to engage and get results!
Building a Brand-right Onboarding Experience In this webinar you learn about how to create a branded leadership onboarding experience that engages new and transitioning leaders and focuses on providing the right knowledge at the right time, building key relationships and gaining and acting on feedback. We introduce both our leadership onboarding technology and multi-rater survey tool and how each allows you to collect data and measure success.
You learn how each can fit into your talent management strategy and how to reflect your organization’s brand into your onboarding experience
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