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A Roadmap for the First 90 Days: How to Create & Improve Orientation, Training, and Onboarding for New Employees

1/14/2025, 1/21/2025

9:00 am - 10:30 am PT | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

In the fast-paced nonprofit world, setting up new employees for success is essential. Join us for A Roadmap for the First 90 Days: Orientation, Training, and Onboarding for New Employees, a workshop designed to help organizations create effective orientations, training and onboarding that boost employee retention and engagement. This interactive series will provide strategies for developing structured orientation programs, employee training plans, and onboarding processes that ensure a smooth transition into new roles from program manager, fundraising staff or leadership.


You’ll learn how to design seamless orientation, role-specific training and an onboarding roadmap to support staff throughout the first 90 days. We'll cover best practices for creating orientation materials, customizing training for different positions, and setting up effective feedback loops to measure success. Whether you're hiring 1 or 50 employees or building your onboarding program from scratch or improving an existing one, this workshop will give you the tools to streamline the process and make a lasting impact.

Ideal for supervisors, managers, team leads, internship coordinators, this workshop will help you create a positive onboarding experience that aligns with your organization’s mission and goals. Get ready to strengthen your team!

Who Should Attend?

Nonprofit Professionals interested in bettering orientation and onboarding experiences for their employees.

What The Training Will Cover

  • Analyze the difference between orientation, training and onboarding for seamless employee transitions

  • Understand how to design structured orientation programs that introduce new hires to your organization’s mission, their role, organization culture, position expectations and operational processes.

  • Develop role-specific training plans tailored to the unique responsibilities of program managers, fundraising staff, and leadership roles.

  • Identify best practices for creating orientation and onboarding materials that streamline the transition into new roles and provide clarity for new employees.

  • Align your onboarding program with organizational goals to ensure that new staff are equipped to contribute effectively from day one.

  • Create employee-supervisor feedback loops and evaluation mechanisms to measure the success and to make improvements to your orientation, training and onboarding program

  • Gain practical strategies to create, improve or build your onboarding program to enhance team productivity and long-term success.

  • Explore techniques to engage supervisors, managers, and team leads in facilitating effective orientation and onboarding experiences for new employees.

REGISTRATION TYPE & FEE

Premier Members

$115

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Members 

$140

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Non-Members

$200

Additional Information

This is an interactive workshop and must be restricted due to online training capacity. Each workshop session is live. Registrants receive slides & handouts. It is expected participants will be able to be on camera and able to unmute for some portions of the training to participate in discussions. Full recordings are not provided. This training must be done sequentially. If you miss a session, please reach out to program@nonprofitlearninglab.org

Looking to register 3+ people? Email us at program@nonprofitlearninglab.org to receive $5 off per registration!

Please Note: 

We do not offer any other discounts for this training other than the member rate. Upon registration, you will receive a link to participate in the training. Please check your inbox or spam folder.

ABOUT THE TRAINER

This training is led by Dr. Leah Weiner who has a doctorate in education and psychology from Pepperdine University. Leah Weiner is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Learning Lab. Leah’s approach to training focuses on making sure that the information provided helps participants solve a problem or create a solution related to their professional work.

WE OFFER CFRE & CAE CREDITS

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1 hour of training = 1 credit hour

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