The Induction Toolkit will help you meet the challenge of ensuring that new staff get into action, get properly involved and committed fast. Make them feel comfortable in the new job. And confident. The pay-off is both immediate and long lasting. Many organisations are poor at induction.
This toolkit could save them thousands of pounds in recruitment costs: help new people feel at home quicker ... make them feel confident sooner ... reduce the chance of them leaving. Any organisation which already has a good induction programme will know how valuable it is. And they'll see how valuable it is to share best practice from this remarkable toolkit.
So if you're already quite pleased with your organisation's induction procedures, use this toolkit to see how it really measures up! The author is Lesley Myland, who has developed these tools and techniques with all kinds of large and small organisations over many years. She comments: "Many organisations think they have a good induction programme. Often that means a hurried first day talk, a whistlestop tour, a few colleagues cajoled into telling someone what's what. Some go for information overload or a drawn out process which makes the information too slow or patchy. The pressure of daily routine can make it difficult to take the time to ensure that the newcomer has every chance to become integrated into the organisation. This pack will help you solve these problems. It simplifies the induction process by handling the topic in a comprehensive way. It'll deliver much better results, for less effort, reducing busy people's workloads."
List of Activities:
SECTION ONE: TOOLS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES OR TRAINING DEPARTMENTS
1. Induction policy:
This unit helps you create the resources to support a comprehensive and consistently delivered induction programme.
2. Producing induction materials:
The tools in this unit enable you to produce effective resources and materials to support your induction programme.
3. Planning induction:
A collection of tools to help you plan your induction programme realistically.
4. Training induction trainers:
With these tools you will be able to plan the training of those who will be responsible for new members of staff during an induction programme.
5. Evaluating induction training:
It is essential to evaluate the success of induction training, and these tools will show you how to do this.
SECTION TWO: TOOLS FOR MANAGERS
6. Defining responsibility:
A collection of tools to help you define your own responsibilities for inducting new members of staff, and to assist you in encouraging your team to support the process.
7. Planning to welcome the individual:
Every newcomer into the organisation needs to feel special and wanted. This unit helps you achieve this by showing you how to plan for new entrants on an individual basis and work to their targeted needs.
8. Induction training activities:
Ideas for induction training activities that are both participative and stimulating.
9. Monitoring progress:
Monitoring and supporting you induction trainees is vital; these tools will assist you in evaluating their progress and in your evaluation of the induction process in your organisation.
258 pages, with 168 ‘OK to copy’ pages
