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Involving Supervisors in New Hire Orientations

Too often I hear human resource professionals complain that they can’t convince supervisors and other managers to be involved in new hire orientations. They just don’t want any part of it! Often, when you start talking with supervisors and managers, they don’t really understand the point of new hire orientations. From their perspectives it is […]

Criteria for Selecting a Training Vendor

When selecting a vendor to provide training curriculum within the organization, consider the following criteria to enable comparisons between various training vendors:

Content: How robust and complete is the content? How practical and usable is the content for participants once they complete the workshop? Can content be customized to be relevant to the organization? What […]

Increase the Chances of the Training “Sticking” Back on the Job

Use a variety of methods to increase the chances of training in workshops sticking once the participants return to their jobs. For example,

Utilize case studies, discussion topics and problem solving scenarios that are similar to what the participant’s encounters in their role. Enable for opportunities to practice the concepts being learned within the classroom […]

Evaluate Your New Hire Orientation Program in the New Year

The New Year is a perfect time to evaluate your new hire orientation program to ensure it is still effective and still meets the needs of new hires and the organization.

Consider these ways to evaluate the program:

Review the objectives of the program against the organization’s current vision, mission and long-term strategic goals. Does […]

Reduce Information Overload in Your New Hire Orientation Programs

Best Practices to Keep Your Orientation Programs Effective for New Hires

In evaluating new hire orientation programs with our clients, Abudi Consulting Group has seen the biggest problem being information overload. New hires (and anyone frankly!) can absorb only so much in any given time period before they are overloaded with information. When information overload […]