Onboarding Staff with Purpose – On-Demand Training

Strengthen Culture, Reduce Turnover and Support New Hire Success

A strategic, well designed onboarding experience is one of the most powerful levers a campus has to protect its talent search and investment, strengthen culture, and accelerate new hire success. When onboarding is rushed, inconsistent, or treated as a checklist, new employees struggle to integrate, morale declines, and departments lose valuable time and momentum. A strategic onboarding process is a critical component of institutional stability and long term employee success.

Join us for a timely and practical session designed for staff, faculty, supervisors and anyone involved in the onboarding process. Our expert presenter brings experience from both corporate and higher education environments, demonstrating how intentional relationship building and phased onboarding practices can transform the new hire experience.

Implement onboarding strategies that accelerate confidence, competence and connection. When new hires understand their role, feel welcomed into the culture, and build meaningful relationships early, they become engaged contributors who stay, grow, and strengthen your institution. Ensure your onboarding process is not a one day orientation, but a strategic, shared, and sustainable approach that sets employees up for long term success.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Implement a phased onboarding model that extends beyond the first week, providing long term tools, checkpoints and relationship building opportunities.
• Connect new employees with an institutional purpose, helping them understand how their skills, passions, and responsibilities contribute to mission, culture, and student success.
• Create a streamlined strategy for effective recruitment, interview and onboarding process, so you can avoid costly and unwanted turnover.
• Engage campus-wide partnerships through clear and tangible responsibilities to get new employees “up and running” quickly and effectively so they can be successful in their new role.
• Foster an environment and onboarding process that will help new employees feel valued, appreciated and reinforced in their decision to join your team.
  

Presenter

Dr. Staci Phelan currently serves as the Division Administrator for the Division of Management Services in the Department of Health and Welfare for the State of Idaho.  Click here for full bio.