Self-Study
Employee Onboarding
Proven employee onboarding strategies, from checklists to competency charts. Implement orientation techniques, performance reviews, and mentoring systems to improve your practice's performance.
Price range: $58.00 through $78.00
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2 Credits: Personnel/Human Resources
Course Level
Overview
Format
Self-Study
Course Description
Many new hires begin searching for a new job shortly after they are hired. What can be done to reduce this turnover? The Employee Onboarding course provides a solution – using onboarding activities to more easily assimilate new hires into the organization and shorten the time needed before they become productive members of the organization. The course covers many types of orientation and the need for ongoing performance reviews and surveys, as well as the support of peer advisors, mentors and coaches at various phases of the onboarding process. The course also covers measurement systems, a new employee checklist, and a number of special onboarding challenges. When fully implemented, the concepts covered by this course can put a noticeable dent in your new hire turnover rate.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the impact of a high rate of employee turnover.
- Describe the activities taken before a new hire starts work.
- Cite the discussion items that a hiring manager has with the department staff when a new person is hired.
- Specify the desirable traits of a peer advisor.
- Describe when a peer advisor program should be used.
- Recognize the different aspects of departmental training.
- Describe the types of people who should be introduced to a new hire.
- Describe how a competency chart is used.
- Specify the contents of a typical new hire portal.
- Recognize the contents of a new employee checklist.
Course Specifics
6161288
October 3, 2025
There are no prerequisites.
None
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Compliance Information
CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
Meet The Experts
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 300 business books and courses. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast. Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and …
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