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The Museum: From the pre-revolutionary drama of the French & Indian War to the legendary match-ups of the Super Steelers, discover 250 years of Pittsburgh history at the Senator John Heinz History Center. An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the History Center is the largest history …
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The American Alliance of Museums and AAM’s Leadership and Management Network are presenting a webinar on Thursday, September 14th, 2017, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, Getting Started with Employee Onboarding. In conjunction with this webinar, Historic Newton is hosting a free webinar “watch and talk” event at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, and we would like you to join us. This is a great opportunity to connect with and learn from local colleagues – and the webinar is only accessible at one of the watch-talk locations. There is no cost to attend our local “watch and talk” event, however advanced registration is required. Feel free to forward this to anyone else in the museum community.
Getting Started with Employee Onboarding
This webinar will benefit hiring managers and HR professionals seeking to enhance their onboarding practices. After participating in this program, participants will be able to identify the importance of onboarding in engaging every new hire from the start; learn how onboarding increases job satisfaction and performance, and decreases turnover; gain practical advice on the different stages of the onboarding process, and important things to do even before your new hire starts work; and, take away ready-to-use, scalable ideas and suggestions to create a fully-inclusive onboarding program that is custom-made for your organization.
The “watch and talk” event at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds consists of the following, but you do not have to attend the pre and post sessions if you do not wish:
RSVP for Historic Newton’s FREE “watch and talk” event HERE. The webinar will take place at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds at 286 Waverley Ave., Newton, MA 02458. We have a fully accessible location with parking on site for persons with mobility issues. Additional parking can be found on the street at no cost right in front of the museum. Please see the parking map with questions –https://goo.gl/L8Ck9n.
For additional program information, visit the AAM website, email Max Metz Jr. at Historic Newton at mmetz@newtonma.gov or contact Greg Stevens at AAM at gstevens@aam-us.org.
We hope you can join us!
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