Given the extremely high cost of replacing good workers (up to 150 percent of their salary and benefits costs, one national survey found), establishing employee orientations that introduce new employees to your workplace and get them up to speed quickly will pay big dividends immediately.

Within the first few days and weeks, you can engage new workers in your organization’s culture, help them set goals in their jobs, forge strong connections with their supervisors, and understand your HR policies-without chasing them away in the process. These days, successful orientation and onboarding programs go well beyond new-hire paperwork. Are you up to speed?

Order this practical 90-minute audio conference recording all about the best employee orientation practices. You’ll learn how to build loyalty among new workers and boost their productivity as you reduce turnover. Plus, you’ll learn how to avoid the most common mistakes other employers make in their onboarding activities.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The key onboarding practices and philosophies that have a direct impact on your employee retention levels
• The basic steps involved in establishing employee orientations that work-from the initial welcome and new-hire forms to on-the-job training and introductions to work teams
• How to create orientations that expose new workers to your organization’s culture and daily work routines, without overwhelming or boring them in the process
• What you should do from Day 1 to introduce new hires to their primary supervisors and create strong management and mentoring relationships between them
• How to measure the effectiveness of your orientation procedures (and how to recognize the warning signs that your onboarding program isn’t working)
• The most common errors employers make in the first days and weeks with new employees-from burying them in company manuals and paperwork to bringing them on board when their frontline managers are off duty or on vacation

Kristine Kwong, Esq., is a partner in the Los Angeles offices of the nationwide law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. Kwong advises and counsels clients on a wide range of business and employment issues, including wage and hour matters, non-compete and restrictive covenant agreements, executive compensation packages, the full range of disciplinary matters, discrimination, harassment, and leaves of absences. Her practice also includes the drafting and updating of handbooks, policy manuals, codes of conduct and severance packages. For the past three years, she has been named a a Southern California Super Lawyer "Rising Star." Kwong is also a prolific and sought-after trainer for employers. She earned her law degree at the University of the Pacific (McGeorge School of Law).

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI home page at www.hrci.org.

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