Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on employee onboarding programmes, which nobody trained them for. Most failures in the wider organisational leadership agenda trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this strand of organisational leadership has actually achieved. Ambition around employee onboarding programmes outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider organisational leadership agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. Participants leave with a method for this area of organisational leadership, not a set of opinions about it. Where employee onboarding programmes is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Every module pairs a short input on the practice within organisational leadership with structured practice on the participant's own material. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to this part of organisational leadership that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Resolve conflict about employee onboarding programmes without leaving residue.
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Translate policy on employee onboarding programmes into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
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Assess the current state of employee onboarding programmes against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
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Review your own performance on employee onboarding programmes as rigorously as you review others'.
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Build coalitions across functions to make employee onboarding programmes stick.
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Protect the team's capacity so employee onboarding programmes is not delivered through exhaustion.
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Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around employee onboarding programmes.
Who Should Attend
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Specialists advising senior management on employee onboarding programmes.
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Officers preparing reports on employee onboarding programmes for boards or oversight committees.
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Department heads and senior managers accountable for employee onboarding programmes.
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Managers of geographically distributed teams handling employee onboarding programmes.
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Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of employee onboarding programmes.
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Public sector managers applying employee onboarding programmes within institutional constraints.
Course Modules
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01
Employee onboarding programmes: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Recovering after a visible mistake on employee onboarding programmes
Identify the conversation about employee onboarding programmes you have been postponing, and schedule it.
Confirm that reporting on employee onboarding programmes reaches the people who can act.
Review a past decision on employee onboarding programmes and state honestly what you would change.
Test whether the team can explain employee onboarding programmes in their own words.
Session 2The meeting that finally unblocks employee onboarding programmes
Prepare the response for the most likely failure in employee onboarding programmes.
Set the decision rights on employee onboarding programmes: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
Name a single owner for each element of employee onboarding programmes.
