Employee Orientation and On-the-Job Training

Includes diversity considerations

Summary:	Understand performance management and the proper techniques and tools for providing employees with a clear sense of job goals and purpose.
Benefit:	When a manager’s knowledge and skills increase around employee orientation and training, the learning curve is shortened for new hires, leading to higher productivity in less time.

Understand role and responsibilities of orienting new employees to their department
Understand the basic performance management cycle and the importance of providing employees with not only a clear job description but also clear performance expectations

Attain a clear sense of what to include as part of a work unit’s new employee orientation training (including any important company/departmental policies and procedures not covered by HR)
Provide employees with their position’s goals and purpose (where their position fits in the organization, its importance and the need for a job well done)
Effectively address initial and ongoing training needs of employees
Develop structured on-the-job training plans
Address issues of diversity in the training process
Understand basic principles of adult learning
Prepare people for training (includes clarifying roles of trainees and trainers) and deliver on-the-job training (oneself or by others)
Develop and provide job-aids to help employees perform skills on-the-job
Follow-up on training (provide for application opportunities, reinforce skills) and ensure skill maintenance

Course Length:

½ Day (3 ½ - 4 hours of content)