Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Thursday, June 5, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon (Pacific Time)

Order Option       Price   1. Live Conference       $219       2. Live Conference + CD Recording       $269       3. CD Recording Only       $219

As an additional benefit, you will receive a no-risk trial subscription to California Employment Law Answers when you register for this audio conference (or purchase a CD recording). You will receive 3 evaluation issues. If you want to continue to receive the newsletter, simply pay the invoice you will receive in the mail. If you decide the newsletter isn't for you, just write cancel on the invoice and return it. You will owe nothing, and all issues you receive are yours to keep. As with all ERI products, your satisfaction is guaranteed 100%. (Offer good for new subscribers only.)

You've spent lots of time and money finding and hiring the best employees. Once they're on the job, however, many employers inadvertently discourage and chase off these new hires by offering ineffective or even off-putting orientation and on-boarding programs.

Given the extremely high cost of replacing good workers (up to 150 percent of their salary and benefits costs, one national survey found), establishing employee orientations that introduce new employees to your workplace and get them up to speed quickly will pay big dividends immediately.

Within the first few days and weeks, you can engage new workers in your organization's culture, help them set goals in their jobs, forge strong connections with their supervisors, and understand your HR policies—without chasing them away in the process. These days, successful orientation and onboarding programs go well beyond new-hire paperwork—are you up to speed?

Join us on June 5 for a practical 90-minute audio conference all about the best employee orientation practices. You'll learn how to build loyalty among new workers and boost their productivity as you reduce turnover. Plus, you'll learn how to avoid the most common mistakes other employers make in their onboarding activities, and you'll have the chance to ask questions about your own orientation practices.

You And Your Supervisors Will Learn:

• The key on-boarding practices and philosophies that have a direct impact on your employee retention levels


• The basic steps involved in establishing employee orientations that work— from the initial welcome and new-hire forms to on-the-job training and introductions to work teams


• How to create orientations that expose new workers to your organization's culture and daily work routines, without overwhelming or boring them in the process


• What you should do from Day 1 to introduce new hires to their primary supervisors and create strong management and mentoring relationships between them


• How to measure the effectiveness of your orientation procedures (and how to recognize the warning signs that your onboarding program isn't working)


• The most common errors California employers make in the first days and weeks with new employees— from burying them in company manuals and paperwork to bringing them on board when their frontline managers are off duty or on vacation

About Your Speaker:

Benjamin Rutledge, Esq., is an employment attorney in Bakersfield who represents and counsels employers. He defends managers in federal and state courts on a wide range of labor and employment law issues. Additionally, he advises his clients on the most effective strategies for preventing employment law disputes, and he conducts management training seminars for new supervisors. He earned his law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hour toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

The Employer Resource Institute is an approved MCLE Multiple Activity Provider, and this program has been approved for 1.5 hours of MCLE credit by the State Bar of California. For more information, please contact our customer service department at (800) 695-7178.

How Do Audio Conferences Work?

An audio conference is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office using a regular telephone. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions' either on the phone or via e-mail.

With your registration, you also receive conference materials with additional practical information from California Employer Advisor sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference.

Why You Can Sign Up To Attend This Event with Confidence

As with all California Employer Advisor products, you're completely protected. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with this audio conference, simply let us know and we will return your entire registration fee.