Effective Onboarding in a Remote Workplace

We want to ensure that our new employees are completely prepared to tackle the world of consulting work for our customers. In the new world of fully remote or hybrid workplaces, how do we ensure our new team members have the tools and training they need to be successful and ensure long-term success? What do we need to change in our current onboarding process to account for knowledge transfer? Technical questions? On the job training? Remote working set-up and ergonomics? Ideally, our hybrid/remote onboarding process will uphold our company culture, accelerate the learning curve, and increase retention. Students should be prepared to: Research our existing onboarding practices to determine their effectiveness and opportunities for improvement. Research the hybrid working / remote onboarding practices of competitors. Research what hybrid working / remote onboarding components are most impactful for new employees. Develop a standardized onboarding plan that achieves our goals.

Redesign our Performance Management Process

As our organization continues to grow, it is important for us to stay up to date with our tools and processes for employee management. We have a desire to focus specifically on our performance management suite of processes. The goal is to understand best practices and benchmarks for performance management and use those to propose updates to our processes. Through this collaboration, we would like to develop a plan that addresses three key areas: The needs and challenges of effective performance management/evaluation Research and identify performance management options available that might suit the needs of our team A rollout/pilot plan that identifying what our team needs to consider in adopting a process

Financial Analysis - Distributed versus Centralized Accounting

We are interested in understanding the benefits / drawbacks of a distributed versus centralized accounting model for our organization. We would like to conduct an analysis to determine our risk level with our current accounting model and proposed courses of action. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to build a market and financial accounting risk model for our organization and perform an analysis using both private and public sources of data. We believe this project will include: Compare and contrast the benefits / drawbacks of distributed versus centralized accounting models Perform benchmark study for medium-size companies like Sandalwood, with entities in multiple countries / currencies Present findings on best practices and suggestions for improvement

Health & Wellness Benchmark Study

We are looking to gain a better understanding of our health and wellness program, as it compares to other health and wellness programs at employers across Canada and the US. We would like to use this study to direct future activities of the Sandalwood Highway to Health program. To accomplish this, we would like the study to focus on: Assessing attitudes toward the Sandalwood Highway to Health program Measuring access to the Sandalwood Highway to Health program Ascertain habits and intentions related to worksite wellness Provide benchmark data and recommendations on similar programs and improvements, new areas of focus We will provide you with access to organizational assets that support the project, including personnel, Highway to Health material, etc. We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of how our Sandalwood Highway to Health program compares to similar programs at various employers across the US and Canada We would like recommendations on how to improve our deployment of this program and new areas of focus.