Creative New Employee Orientation Programs

This volume contains practical ideas and solutions that HR pros can customize to meet their own company's orientation needs, no matter the size of the company or the geographical distribution of employees and locations.

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This volume has everything an HR professional needs to put together a customized orientation program that communicates to new employees what they need to know about the company, in a lively, memorable format. The book contains practical ideas and solutions that HR pros can customize to meet their own company's orientation needs, no matter the size of the company or the geographical distribution of employees and locations. Also included are dozens of best practices in employee orientation from leading companies, checklists, worksheets, and creative games developed by senior HR professionals from many organizations. Sample games include "Company Policy Scavenger Hunt" and "Employment Law Hangman." Because each orientation program must be customized to the needs of the organization, the book avoids a "cookie-cutter" approach, and instead provides dozens of possible program outlines, icebreakers, worksheets, and exercises that will help new employees interactively get to know their organization. One of the creative ideas, for example, provides a format for having new employees eat lunch with senior managers to facilitate communication in the company culture.
All worksheets and participant materials can be downloaded from the Web and customized to the needs of the organization.