Every month, Talent Terrace tracks publicly offered webinars and other events that would appeal to the professional development interests of HR, internal communications, and business owners aspiring to deliver satisfying work experiences to their employees. Below is the list of mostly free events for May 2011 which includes several that offer HRCI recertification credits for those working [...]
Remember new hires and candidates when designing benefit plan communications.
When developing employee benefit communication tools for employees, remembering to include an audience of candidates, recruiters and new hires into the mix can give your organization an advantage when competing for selective talent.
Amanda Lannert shared a great employee benefits enrollment communication post this week at www.tlnt.com. [...]
Parts I and II served up the entree and main course for the on-boarding experience suggestions. You sampled the benefits of an on-going process compared to a one-time short new hire orientation event. That was followed by a customizable template of sorts from which you can pick out activities and time frames for setting up your organization’s on-boarding process [...]
In Part I – The Appetizer, you might recall the rationale for adopting a comprehensive on-boarding process rather than hope for a successful outcome with a one-time brief orientation program.
Part II serves up an “entree” of considerations when developing an on-boarding process. The following list provides “food for thought” when deciding which activities to include and when to conduct them. [...]
Serving up an on-boarding experience; passing on the fast-food new hire orientation
New employee orientation programs are typically short-term projects focused on paperwork and policies. Like fast-food, it gets the job done quickly but doesn’t produce the experience that makes for a meaningful and memorable welcome. On the other hand, on-boarding processes are longer term efforts [...]