Reducing the Fog: Approaches to Effective Employee Onboarding

SHRM shared that one-third of managers will fail in their new role and on average direct replacement cost of an employee can be 6-9 months of salary. Retaining your talent is more important than ever. Organizations need to ensure new employees fall in love with the organization and its mission, and that starts on day 1. This session will provide organizational development professionals with the tools and tactics needed to create an effective onboarding process to ensure new hires adjust to the cultural and performance aspects of their new role and quickly become productive contributors to your organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn steps to building an effective onboarding process
• Discover different phases of the onboarding process
• Build a compelling case to invest in a structured onboarding process
• Analyze the results of an effective onboarding process

About the Facilitator:

Gisele Marcus is the product of a best in class - onboarding experience and also possesses an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a TEDxHarvard speaker on the topics of relationship building and networking, key elements to the onboarding process. A native New Yorker, Gisele was raised in Harlem (the old Harlem). Professionally she is an operations executive who makes organizations hum. Her audiences have consisted of national organizations such as the Association of Chamber Executives, National Sales Network, and Syracuse University. Globally she has been a keynote speaker for Autodesk and Amalgamated Banks of South Africa. She has been featured in the Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, the Milwaukee Business Journal, and the St. Louis Business Journal. A lover of international travel, her favorite continent is Africa where she has explored 11 countries.

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