New Employee Orientation Training

Chapter 3. Designing an Interactive Program

What’s in This Chapter?

• Purpose and goals of a new employee orientation program

• Elements of an effective program that addresses cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning domains

• Supervisor’s preparation for the new employee’s arrival

• What to cover on an employee’s first day

• How to orient the new employee to the overall organization

Before you begin to design your new employee orientation program, you need to spend time upfront getting support, buy-in, and participation from others in the organization. You cannot design this program in a vacuum—you need to be clear about what the organization’s top management wants to accomplish in a new employee orientation program. Of course, you can give them some ...