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Dr. Tara Roberson-Moore has more than 16 years of experience in workforce and adult education. She has led organizational learning development projects for the US Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Oklahoma Assistive Technology Foundation, Office of Management and Enterprise Services (State of Oklahoma), International Association of Fire Chiefs, International Fire Service Training Association, the US Department of Justice/Office on Violence Against Women, as well as a variety of industry clients.
Latest from Tara Roberson-Moore, PhD
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Burned Out on Feedback: How Rating Fatigue Undermines Performance Reviews & What You Can Do About It
‘Rating fatigue’ can lead to poor quality reviews. Learn why this matters and how to avoid it.
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Onboarding Primer
L&D and HR professionals: Learn how to develop and implement a successful onboarding program.
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We All Just Want to Have Fun
Onboarding is the perfect opportunity to introduce fun as part of your company culture and demonstrate it to your new people.
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Onboarding: It Takes as Long as it Takes
If onboarding was one-size-fits-all, we would all just apply the formula and move on. The best way to determine how long onboarding should be and when it should transition to something else is analysis.
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One-and-Done Is Just Not a Thing
Plan for all the forgetting and find ways to keep important information in your learners’ brains as long as possible.
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Don’t Keep New Hires in the Dark
Your people should never be left in the dark about expectations. This goes for everything from job performance to career advancement in your organization.
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Metrics + Milestones = Onboarding Success
Why go to the expense of designing, developing, and implementing a training initiative and not collecting data that demonstrates success (or failure)?
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You’ve Got a Friend
A mentor or buddy system not only provides reinforcement for what was learned but also allows your new hire to ask questions they may not have wanted to ask while in class or were unable to ask in an eLearning.
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Variety Is the Spice of Learning Life
You can have the best hiring and recruiting programs in the business and still blow the retention of employees because of a bad onboarding experience.
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Let’s Get Personal
When onboarding, consider which type of experience would best meet the needs of internal and external hires. Onboarding? Reboarding? Everboarding?