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Which resources help with New Employee Training?

Specific question: ``I'm developing a new employee training program for a new group in the company. Are there any really good resources I could look at to get ideas?"

Marcia's answer: I've done a lot of work over the years creating new employee training programs. When searching the web, I've found very few resources out there. While culling some of my original work to include here, check out the resources I did find. If you know of others, please let me know!

Background

New Employee Training is more than answering Who's my boss? What's my job? Who can I trust? How do I get a raise? What can get you fired? How hard do I have to work? Do we compete or collaborate? Should I mention this great idea I have? Where is the bathroom? A good new employee training program helps someone new to an organization get a sense of your culture, norms, processes, and rhythm so that they can feel like a true contributor fast and in a meaningful way.

Websites

Yellowbrick & Deliver the Promise's Orientation site. This company also offers training programs, a self-study course, and consulting on Orientation. I'm interested in learning if you've had experience with this products orientation offers, please let me know. http://www.deliverthepromise.com/Employee-Orientation.htm

Univeristy of Texas's Management team bulletin contained a terrific introduction of the purpose and process of New Employee Orientation and Training. http://www.utexas.edu/admin/ohr/modl/pubs/mtb130.html#RTFToC28

Sample Orientation Letter, also from the University of Texas.
http://www.utexas.edu/admin/ohr/modl/orientation/orientation.html

CHIC Hospitality has a susinct list of things to cover in a general orientation. http://www.easytraining.com/orientation.htm

Univeristy of California at Berkeley's Checklist of Supervisors includes items for ``Before the New Employee Arrives," ``First Day on the Job," WIthin First Month," and more. http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/PROGRAMS/neosupck.htm

Books

New Employee Orientation: A Practical Guide for Supervisors
by Charles M. Cadwell, Michael G. Crisp (Editor) Crisp Pubns, 1988. Short and to the point.

Not So Basic New Hire Orientation. Suzanne Gust. $295. Not So Basic Training & Consulting, Inc. 2000. Pricey but very thorough.

Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees (3rd ed). Diane Arthur. AMACOM, 1998.

Recruiting Training and Retaining New Employees. Jack J. Phillips. Joseey-Bass. 1987. Out of Print but wonderful if you see it at a used bookstore. Sometimes Amazon.com can find a copy if you ask.

Successful New Employee Orientation: Assess, Plan, Conduct, & Evaluate Your Program. Jean Barbazette. Pfeiffer, 1994. Pricey but very thorough.

The Ultimate New Employee Survival Guide. Edward Holton. Petersons Guides, 1998. Guide for college student's first job, but an interesting overview of workplace practices for employees, too.

Examples

Biola University has an overview of it's New Employee Training program. http://www.biola.edu/admin/t&d/tdnewemployee.cfm

Cornell University's Information Technologies group has put their New Employee Hanbook online at http://ir-www.cit.cornell.edu/IR_Committees/TLT/NETM.html

Articles

New Employee Training: Is it worth the investment? http://management.miningco.com/smallbusiness/management/library/w eekly/aa112597.htm

Fast Company had a great article on New employee training in their June/July 98 Fast Start ``Your first 60 days" http://www.fastcompany.com/online/15/first60.html

Helping New Employee Succeed from Workplace.com (you must register FREE to see this article) http://www.workforce.com/archive/article/000/79/61.xci

Workshops

I haven't participated in this session, but I had a wonderful recommendation for The Training Clinic's ``Make New Employee Orientation a Success" 1-day workshop http://www.apc.net/trainu/orient.htm

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