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Employee retention is shaped from the very beginning of the employee experience. While HR often owns the structure of onboarding, managers play a critical role in helping new employees understand expectations, build relationships, gain confidence, and see a future within the organization.

In this session, Dr. Cherie Comeau will introduce a framework for strengthening onboarding across five key areas. Participants will explore the shared roles of HR and managers, ways to personalize the onboarding experience through behavioral insight, and practical approaches that can work across different team sizes, budgets, and levels of HR capacity.

Attendees will leave with ideas they can use to assess their current onboarding approach, identify gaps that may be affecting the employee experience, and strengthen the connection between onboarding, manager effectiveness, development, and retention.

This program is valid for 1.25 PDCs for the SHRM-CP^® or SHRM-SCP^® and 1.25 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).

Dr. Cherie Comeau is a leadership coach, talent development consultant, and founder of CC Leadership Solutions. She brings nearly 20 years of experience developing managers and leaders and built and led the talent development function for a multibillion-dollar organization. Dr. Comeau helps organizations strengthen manager capability, develop talent, and turn people priorities into action. Her work spans coaching, workshops, talent development strategy, program design, and fractional talent leadership. Dr. Comeau holds a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership and is a certified executive coach.

This meeting is sponsored by:

“HRMA of Central Massachusetts is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP^sm or SHRM-SCP^sm. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.”

“HR Certification Institute's® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that HRMA of Central Massachusetts meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.”

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