New Employee Orientation Simulation and Bootcamp

New Employee Orientation Simulation New hire bootcamp

New Employee Orientation Bootcamp

Accelerate Speed to Productivity for New Hires

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Customized New Employee Orientation Simulation

“I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with LSA on the design and delivery of the New Employee Orientation Simulation. I’ve been getting tons of positive unsolicited feedback.

You truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.”
Steven Gray | US Enterprise Services | Microsoft

“We partnered with LSA to help custom design, deliver, and measure an advanced new employee orientation simulation and measurement process. The process was well thought out and bought into by leadership.

The combination of targeted tools, technology, coaching, performance plans, training, and reinforcement made all the difference.”
Rochana Golani | Director, Global Field Readiness | VMware, Inc.

“The experiential New Employee Orientation Simulation was an incredible success for over 2500 new hires in four years across the globe.

LSA partnered with us to create an innovative solution on very short notice, and added a huge amount of value that isn’t reflected in their cost.

Even our leaders and experienced hires were blown away!”
Brenda Wagner | Founder and President | Proxicom

Description
Traditional new hire onboarding approaches — assigning reading materials, deploying generic e-learning modules, or relying on slide-heavy presentations — rarely prepare new hires for how the organization actually operates or what it takes to succeed in their role. They inform, but they do not equip or engage.

A well-designed New Employee Orientation Simulation shifts the focus to what matters most — accelerating real-world readiness for the employee, their manager, and the business.

If speed to productivity is a priority, this customized, experiential onboarding approach delivers measurable impact.

This multi-day, immersive New Employee Orientation Simulation is designed for fast-growing organizations seeking to significantly reduce ramp time and enable new hires to perform at a high level — both internally and in client-facing environments. It is particularly effective for roles that require navigating:

  • Complex, customized product offerings.
  • High-expectation internal or external clients.
  • Increasing project and operational complexity.
  • Ambiguous or evolving client or job requirements.
  • Cross-functional collaboration and team-based delivery.

Rather than passively consuming information, participants engage in a reality-based case experience that mirrors the challenges they will face on the job. This proven approach integrates company-specific content, tools, and methodologies into a dynamic simulation, allowing new hires to apply what they learn in context — building confidence, competence, and credibility from the outset.

Learning / Facilitation Approach:

  1. Assess & Design
    Design a customized, multi-day experiential onboarding journey aligned to your organization’s strategic priorities, operating model, and real-world challenges. The experience is tailored to reflect how work actually gets done — not just how it is described.Typical content integrates a proprietary blend of critical capabilities, including:

    Navigating change and managing personal transitions
    — Company strategy, positioning, and cultural values
    — Career development and advancement pathways
    — Products, services, and cross-functional operations
    — Conflict management, decision making, and judgment under pressure
    — Project management, postmortems, scope management, and problem solving
    — Executive presence, presentations, and meeting effectiveness
    Consulting skills, communication, and team dynamics
    Solution selling, core methodologies, and enabling technologies
    Organizational dynamics, resource navigation, and mentoring
    — Strategic thinking and business acumen

  2. Pilot
    Deliver the immersive, multi-day experience through a reality-based simulation where participants tackle job-relevant tasks and scenarios. These challenges are designed to reflect the complexity, ambiguity, and pace of actual work.Facilitated debriefs connect outcomes to behaviors, decisions, and underlying assumptions — enabling participants to understand not just what happened, but why. The result is deeper insight, stronger judgment, and accelerated readiness.
  3. Continuous Improvement
    Capture insights, feedback, and performance data to continuously refine and enhance the onboarding experience — ensuring it evolves alongside business needs and consistently drives faster time to productivity.

Benefits:

  • Full Engagement from Day One
    Participants are actively immersed in realistic scenarios — learning by doing rather than passively consuming information. This drives faster skill acquisition and stronger retention.
  • Accelerated Speed to Productivity
    Organizations can achieve up to a 50%+ reduction in time to value as new hires focus on the critical knowledge, behaviors, and decisions required to perform effectively in their roles.
  • Improved Client Satisfaction and Service Levels
    By aligning onboarding to real client situations and delivery expectations, companies often see up to a 25%+ increase in satisfaction scores — both internally and externally.
  • Meaningful Time and Cost Savings
    Better-prepared employees require less oversight, generate fewer downstream issues, and contribute sooner — reducing rework, escalation, and productivity loss.
  • Stronger Engagement and Cultural Integration
    Experiential onboarding fosters connection, trust, and shared understanding. Organizations frequently see up to a 30%+ increase in engagement and belonging as new hires build relationships and internalize cultural norms early.
  • Greater Consistency in Execution
    Through hands-on application, new employees adopt and apply core methodologies more consistently — often becoming early advocates and “power users” of key processes and tools.
  • Increased Cross-Selling and Collaboration
    Expanded awareness of services, capabilities, and interdependencies enables stronger collaboration across teams — driving increased cross-selling and referral opportunities across business units, practices, industries, and geographies.

Target Audience
Experienced and inexperienced new employees who want to be set up for success.

What new hires say about new employee on-boarding:

  • “This exceeded all of my expectations as a new hire.”
  • “The level of support I received from the company, my manager, and my mentor was refreshing.  I feel set up to succeed from the start.”
  • “This is the best new hire process that I have ever been through.  The new hire Survivors’ Guide is my new bible.”

What hiring managers say about new employee on-boarding:

  • “Having a proven and consistent process to get my new hires up to speed has been a godsend.  I could not meet our growth targets without it.”
  • “As a hiring manager, I was at first skeptical of the process. Now, I mandate that all new employees go through the new hire orientation process because it saves me time and dramatically increases their speed to productivity.”
  • “The difference between new hires who went through the new on-boarding program and those that did not is astounding.”
  • “While I fought it at first, it is now mandatory for all my people.”
  • “Changing our new hire orientation from an event to a measurable process made all the difference.  It is embarrassing to think that most companies do it backwards.”

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about new employee orientation and on-boarding training program customization and delivery options to increase the speed of new hire productivity, please contact us.

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The customized new hire on-boarding process, coaching, tools, and measurement have provided a very useful structure and frame for the first 90-days for both me and our new hires.

It has been a very positive experience and will make it much easier to on-board my new hires in a way that makes sense for our unique sales strategy and culture.

Martyn Storey
Systems Engineer Manager

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with LSA on the design and delivery of the experiential new employee on-boarding training.

I’ve been getting tons of positive unsolicited feedback.

You truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Steven Gray
US Enterprise Services

We held our 1st Year Academy for our new associates last week, and the critical segment that LSA helped us redesign went exceptionally well.

Their instructional design skills made it more relevant, more interactive, and more engaging.

We greatly appreciate what LSA did to help us greatly improve a key component of our program!

Larry Brown
Senior Manager, Training & Professional Development

We hired LSA Global to design and deliver a customized outdoor experiential new employee orientation program for our recent group of MBA new hires.

The program reinforced WIPRO core values, helped to build relationships with fellow associates, and enhanced the group’s ability to operate successfully in the global world.

I definitely recommend LSA for effective employee onboarding of top talent.

Vishu Venkat, PHR
Talent Acquisition

Congratulations on your pro-activity in establishing this program and developing such an effective New Employee Orientation course.

Farhat Ali
President and Chief Executive Office

Fujitsu

We partnered with LSA to help custom design, deliver, and measure an advanced new employee on-boarding process. It was well thought out and bought into by sales leadership.  The combination of targeted sales tools, technology, coaching, performance plans, training, and reinforcement made all the difference.  The solution quantifiably improved new employee and hiring manager satisfaction and increased the speed to sales quota for new hires.

I would highly recommend LSA Global for any sales enablement team looking to increase the engagement and speed to productivity of their sales force. We are excited to implement the program globally as we continue to scale.

Rochana Golani
Director, Global Sales & Technical Field Enablement

The experiential New Employee Orientation was an incredible success for 2,500+ new hires over 4 years spread across the globe.

LSA partnered with us to create an innovative solution on very short notice and added a huge amount of value.

We could never have done it without their unmatched combination of expertise, professionalism, and creativity that aligned everything with our unique culture and growth strategy.

Even our executives and experienced hires were blown away!

Brenda Wagner
Founder and President

Proxicom

LSA Global has been a great partner in helping us move toward being “the leading developer of talent in the service performance management industry.”

I have engaged LSA to help develop best-in-class programs in the areas of: Executive On-boarding, Manager Training, Sales Training and Coaching, Employee Engagement, and Instructional Design.

They have consistently met or exceeded my (very) high expectations and are always responsive to my needs to increase performance, engagement, customer satisfaction, and sales growth.

Mike Normant
Senior Director, Training & Development

Service Source

ServiceSource has relied on LSA Global’s expertise for a variety of core initiatives, from strategy design and implementation, to business sales skills, to sales coaching. We recently engaged LSA Global to create a competency matrix for our inside sales team that will serve as our roadmap for employee on-boarding, development, succession planning, and retention.

This critical project had a tight timeline with high visibility. LSA Global completed the deliverable ahead of schedule and surpassed our expectations.

PMO and Outside Sales Operations
Senior Vice President

Service Source

I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with how successful the new employee on-boarding project was.

The end product is wonderful!  LSA has been great to work with.

I really appreciate all the flexibility, customer focus, and the high quality of deliverables.

Laurie Torres
Vice President of Human Resources

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