Welcoming and Integrating a New Employee

Synopsis

Discover how a well-planned welcoming and integration package for new employees can be valuable for your organization. Learn of various elements that make up an integration plan, and how to organize them. Review tips on how to empower a new employee to actively integrate into your workplace.

Objectives

• Recognize the advantages of a structured integration plan
• Draw up a list of items for consideration when welcoming and integrating a new employee
• Develop a follow-up document for successful integration
• Empower the new employee to take responsibility for his integration into the workforce

Outline

• Introduction
• Overview
• Objectives
• Why Welcome and Integrate a New Employee?
• The Benefits of Effective Assimilation
• Preparing to Receive a New Employee
• Welcoming
• Preparing a Warm Welcome
• Immediate Supervisor
• Prepare the Team
• A Hospitable Workplace
• Checkpoint I
• Developing an Integration Plan
• Provide a Sense of Purpose
• Essential Components
• Empowering the Employee
• Promote Initiative
• Checkpoint II
• Arriving on the Job
• The Welcome
• Introducing Your Company
• Delineating Tasks and Responsibilities
• Meaningful Mentoring
• Crossword Puzzle
• Final Checkpoint

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