By The Expert Academy, Course Creator

Remote Onboarding For New Hires

Language: English
All Levels

Course description

You’ve recruited a star candidate for your remote team and want to do everything you can to help them do their best work and contribute to the company’s goals. Don’t leave them with the feeling that you’re surprised they showed up! Having an onboarding program is the most effective way to support new employees as they navigate the remote workplace and seek to learn, build relationships, and contribute at their highest level of performance. It’s also a proven way to grow your company’s profits - no matter the staff size or stage of maturity. This course is designed to delight new employees with an onboarding program that kickstarts engagement, collaboration and high performance. Whether you’ve done remote onboarding before or you’re a complete newbie, our templates and activities will get you up to speed in no time. We’ll help you build on your existing expertise and use your existing resources to create a remote onboarding program that delights new employees and helps them succeed at every level.

What Will You Learn?

Our workplaces have swiftly transitioned into the online space, without us having much knowledge about how to make remote working successful. Onboarding new talent to our remote workplaces is a key skill and practice for HR practitioners, team leaders, and entrepreneurs to be able consistently facilitate engagement, productivity, and high performance. In this course, you will learn how to create a customised remote onboarding program for your organisation, while gaining a strong conceptual foundation of best practices within the remote workplace.

During this course you'll learn about:

  • An introduction to onboarding in the remote workplace
  • The essential elements of good remote onboarding
  • Kickstarting learning for new hires
  • Encouraging connections and building relationships at work
  • Setting up new employees for productivity and success
  • Transitioning from onboarding and& measuring success

By the end of this course you'll know how to:

  • Create a comprehensive remote onboarding program for your company
  • Empathise with the needs of a new hire joining a remote workplace
  • Anticipate and navigate the remote workplace scenarios that impact onboarding success
  • Design meaningful and collaborative learning experiences for new hires
  • Collaborate with key individuals in the organisation to create and implement the remote onboarding program
  • Set performance expectations and goals for new employees using the 30 60 90 day plan
  • Create feedback mechanisms to refine your company’s remote onboarding program

Who Is This Course For?

  • Anyone who needs to coordinate and manage the onboarding of new employees in the remote workplace.
  • You may be an HR manager leading your company's remote onboarding process.
  • You might be a team leader in charge of onboarding new employees.
  • You might even be an entrepreneur who needs to onboard new hires to your remote workplace.

Related Skills

Course overview - 25

  • Intro

  • The Scope of Onboarding in a Remote Workplace

  • Why Onboarding is an Essential Practice in a Remote Workplace

  • Popular Questions About Remote Onboarding

  • Activity 1

  • What New Employees Need When They Join A Remote Workplace

  • How Remote Working Impacts Onboarding

  • Best Practices For Successful Remote Onboarding

  • Getting Started With Your Remote Onboarding Program

  • Activity 2

  • Pre-boarding - Remote Onboarding Element #1

  • Designing Learning Experiences For New Hires

  • Activity 3

  • Social Onboarding - Remote Onboarding Element #2

  • Connecting And Learning From Others

  • Creating A Collaborative Experience Through Onboarding

  • Activity 4

  • First Assignments - Remote Onboarding Element #3

  • Setting Performance Expectations And Goals

  • Coaching For High Performance

  • Activity 5

  • Ongoing Support - Remote Onboarding Element #4

  • Measuring Onboarding Success

  • Creating A Remote Onboarding Action Plan For A New Employee

  • Activity 6

Meet your instructor

The Expert Academy
The Expert AcademyCourse Creator
The Expert Academy is a specialist creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality online courses. We bring together leading industry experts from around the world to produce engaging and transformative online masterclasses, so you can learn from the very best. Our courses are curated in order to assist fast learning, based on content-rich, bite-sized lectures, filled with actionable exercises and real-world examples. We are dedicated to launching the most up-to-date content, presented with exceptional quality production value, and have helped over 100,000 students enrich their lives through online learning.