New Hire Onboarding in the Federal Government Workshop

Workshop Description

This workshop is led by subject matter thought leaders and business consultants Mark Stein and Lilith Christiansen (authors of Successful Onboarding: A Strategy to Unlock Hidden Value within Your Organization; McGraw-Hill). The workshop is designed to help you improve, design, plan for and implement an Onboarding program for your Government Organization.

Why You Should Attend

Federal executives, managers and staff attending this workshop will gain an understanding to establish an effective new hire onboarding program for your government organization to:

1. Drive increased performance from your new hires
2. Prepare for increased hiring as a result of the insourcing focus
3. Establish itself as the "Agency-of-Choice"
4. Help new members of your organization integrate into the workforce and become effective team members
5. Transfer knowledge from existing employees to new hires, addressing the projected retirement wave
6. Establish the link between recruiting, hiring and onboarding
7. Create transparency in the career development path
8. Integrate political appointees with career civil service staff and foster effective relationships
9. Demonstrate the strategic importance of onboarding to Agency leadership and each employee.
   

Participants will come away from this workshop with an overall framework for driving onboarding excellence and helping the Federal agencies absorb the projected increase in new hire intake with particular emphasis on readiness, productivity, and transparency.

What You Will Learn

• What is Strategic and World Class Onboarding
• The Business Case and Potential for Effective Onboarding
• The "New" New Hire Compact
• Essentials of Effective and Strategic Onboarding
• Essentials of determining Onboarding Objectives and Conducting a Proper Diagnostic
• Customizing a solution for your Workforce, Your Resources, Your Priorities
• A Framework for Success - 4 Pillar Framework and deep dive on each
• Implementation Requirements and Strategy
• Best Practices
• Pitfalls to Avoid
• Performance Management Framework
• Governance & Administration

Who Should Attend

Executives, managers, staff and leaders involved in organization new hire recruiting, new hire onboarding, personnel management, organization development, organization performance management, and program management.

• Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs) ; and office representatives
• HR Managers
• HR Staff 
• Program Managers 
• Training and Development Leaders and Managers 
• Leaders and Managers involved in Organization Performance Improvement
• All Leaders interested in improving their organizations HR Program
• CIOs, CFOs, CPO, and all CXOs, Executives, Managers, and Staff who hire, mentor, or train new employees
• IGs and Staff

Format

• Presentations by experts

• Panel discussions led by experienced government and industry experts in onboarding and federal hiring
• A hands-on workshop where attendees will learn how to create a successful onboarding program in their organization