Creative New Employee Orientation Programs: Best Practices, Creative Ideas, and Activities for Energizing Your Orientation Program

  • 5h 33m
  • Doris Sims
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2002

How Today's Most Successful Companies Make Orientation Personalized, Fun--and Dramatically More Effective

New employees hit your workplace eager to show their stuff and make their marks. Creative New Employee Orientation Programs shows you how to keep their energy levels high with creative orientation activities, customizable worksheets, innovative icebreakers, and more.

Filled with checklists, "best practices" articles, and case studies from leading companies including Ford Motor, Red Lobster, Alcatel, and others, this state-of-the-art orientation guide will show you how to:

  • Energize and revitalize your current orientation program
  • Create a great first impression with new employees and managers
  • Effectively communicate your company's values, vision, and mission
  • Accelerate new employee productivity
  • Start employees off on the right track ¬ by explaining the culture and attitudes that support the company's business.
  • Increase understanding of--and compliance with--sexual harassment guidelines
  • Deliver consistent orientation messages across multiple remote locations
  • And much more

Nothing will squash the spirit of new hires quicker than snail's-pace lectures and dry, tedious classroom sessions. Transform your organization's orientation program--and get your newest employees off to a flying start--with the best practices, tips, tools, and guidelines in Creative New Employee Orientation Programs.

Many companies have an orientation process that addresses the paperwork issues but does not include vital information about the company's products and services, culture, policies, customers, safety issues, and so forth. This book is designed to help those who are responsible for their organization's orientation process by providing unique and creative ways to make orientation special, memorable, and effective.

About the Author

Doris M. Sims is the Director of Human Resource Development at Alcatel USA. She is a speaker and author on training topics, and is a past winner of Lakewood Publications' Outstanding Performers in Training award. Ms. Sims has a Master's degree in Human Resource Development from Indiana State University and more than fifteen years of experience in employee training and development.

In this Book

  • New Trends in Employee Orientation
  • A Six-Step Guide to Creating or Updating Your Orientation Program
  • Moving Your Orientation Program Online
  • Orientation for a Global Population
  • Creating a Customized Orientation Video
  • Employee Orientation for Small Businesses
  • Developing a College Intern Program
  • Designing a Buddy Program
  • Twenty Ways to Celebrate New Employees
  • Subject Matter Experts As Orientation Speakers
  • Designing Your Own Orientation Board Game
  • Using Icebreakers and Games
  • The New Employee Orientation Shopping List
  • Tried-and-True Orientation Design
  • The REV Orientation Program
  • Kahunaville's Pursuit of Wow—POW!
  • Case Study: Champion Laboratories, Inc.
  • Orientation at Alcatel USA
  • Orienting and Retaining a Technical Population
  • Wyndham International Beginnings
  • New Crew Members "Take the Plunge!" at Red Lobster
  • Self-Directed Orientation Modules
  • Designing an Annual Residential Orientation Program
  • The Management Orientation Shopping List
  • New Managers Learn the Business
  • A Focus on Culture for Managers
  • Orienting the New Executive
  • Employment Law Hangman
  • Company Ethics Baseball
  • Effective Interviewing Tools
  • Writing Job Descriptions
  • Sexual Harassment Table Discussions
  • Mission or Vision Telephone Game
  • Autographs Icebreaker
  • Spots and Signatures
  • Match That Number!
  • A Sweet Way to Meet!
  • Have Your Passport Ready!
  • New Job Butterflies
  • Visioning—The Power of One
  • Pom-Pom Power!
  • If They Snooze, You Lose
  • And the Category Is … Ford History!
  • Stories in a Jar
  • Orange You Going to Ask Me?
  • Customizable Bingo Review Game
  • The Hunt for Company Policies!
  • Celebrating New Talent
  • 3-D Bingo: A Walking Tour
  • Employees Meet the Values
  • A Manager's Checklist: Helping New Employees Succeed
  • Before the Employee's First Day
  • I'm New Here—What Should I Learn?
  • New Employee Workstation Survey
  • A 90-Day New Employee Survey
  • New Employee Checklists—Before, During, and After!
  • Selecting On-the-Job Trainers
  • Preventing Orientation Instructor Burnout
  • Preventing Orientation Participant Boredom
  • Evaluating and Demonstrating the Importance of Orientation
  • Keeping Orientation Materials Up to Date
  • Orienting a Small Number of Employees
  • Orienting Employees in Remote Locations
  • Interpreting Company Culture in the Orientation Program
  • Organizing Orientation Materials
  • Addressing Orientation Attendance
  • The Length of Your Orientation Program
  • Preventing New Employee Information Overload
  • Separate Orientations for Employees and Managers
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