Planning and implementing an effective induction process

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Course Overview

UK averages show that up to 40% of starters leave before completing 13 weeks service, thereby wasting thousands of pounds on recruitment and training. One of the main reasons cited is ineffective induction. It makes business sense that when new employees are recruited the company seeks to help them adjust to their new workplace as quickly as possible so that they become integrated and productive members of the organisation from the earliest possible opportunity.

This practical seminar will guide you through both the theory and practice of designing an effective induction programme, providing an opportunity for you to share experiences, ideas and tips, ensuring that your organisation receives maximum benefit from the induction process.

Audience

Anyone responsible for the recruitment and/or retention of staff, including:

• HR managers and staff
• Training/learning and development managers and staff
• Anyone seeking to introduce induction practices

Skills Gained

This highly practical programme will help you:

• Appreciate both the business case and the legal requirements for an effective induction process
• Prepare induction policies and procedures for your organisation
• Design an induction programme
• Modify your programme for different audiences
• Deliver a better company induction day
• Evaluate your induction process

Above all, this programme will help you a) minimise the risk of recruitment efforts being wasted because of inadequate induction processes and b) maximise the contribution of new starters to the organisation.

Course Outline

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Introduction and seminar objectives

9.45 The induction process

• What is ‘induction’?
• Post-it survey
• Induction models
• Why is induction important?
• Legal aspects
• Timely information
• Standards of performance
• Working time regulations
• Health and safety
• Discrimination and harassment

10.15 The induction ‘crisis’

• Real or imagined?
• What the papers say
• The costs and consequences

10.45 Coffee

11.00 Business considerations

• The pain and the gain
• Value-added activities
• Making it happen
• Who do you need to influence
• ‘Selling’ the induction process
• Organisation and administration

11.20 Induction policy and procedure (Practical session)

• What should it cover?
• Guidelines on writing a policy/procedure

11.45 Designing a work-based induction (Practical session)

• Defining the objectives
• Generic core content
• Principles of best practice
• Structure
• Is it user friendly?
• Roles and responsibilities
• The essentials of communication

12.45 Lunch

1.45 Generic vs bespoke

• Gearing the induction experience to individual needs
• School leavers
• Graduates
• Managers
• Ethnic minorities
• Returners
• Part-timers and job sharers
• Temporary and contract staff

2.15 Induction record and checklists

• Design considerations
• On-line induction

2.30 The company induction day (Practical session)

• Defining the aims and objectives
• Deciding on the content
• Designing the day to suit all preferred learning styles
• Tips on organisation and administration

3.15 Tea

3.30 Group presentations (Practical session)

4.15 Evaluating the induction process

• How to evaluate the induction programme
• Reviewing employee's induction
• First week
• First month
• End of probation period
• What to do with the results

4.45 Seminar review and action planning

5.00 Close of seminar

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