Leading Through The Labor Shortage: Habits and Norms That Make New Hires Stick Webinar
Join Maryland MEP and The BLU Arc Collective for a practical webinar focused on the habits and workplace norms that influence new-hire retention. Attendees will explore three critical areas of the employee experience, selection, onboarding, and training, and leave with practical questions and actions they can use to strengthen retention within their organization.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- How to identify new-hire onboarding and retention challenges
- Questions to evaluate hiring and selection practices
- Ways to assess habits and norms shaping onboarding
- How training practices impact the new-hire experience
- Three best practices to improve retention within 30 days
- How to turn insights into an action commitment
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Manufacturing Business Owners & Executives
- Plant & Operations Leaders
- Human Resources Professionals
- Workforce Development Leaders
- Hiring Managers & Supervisors
- Anyone responsible for hiring, onboarding, training, or retaining employees within a manufacturing organization
Leading Through the Labor Shortage at a Glance
✓ Focused specifically on new-hire retention
✓ Examine three critical areas: Selection, Onboarding & Training
✓ Identify habits and workplace norms that may be affecting retention
✓ Leave with three best practices you can consider putting into place within 30 days
✓ Finish with an action commitment you can take back to your organization
December 9, 2026 | 10:00 AM
WHY MARYLAND MANUFACTURERS SHOULD ATTEND
Hiring is only part of the workforce challenge. Keeping new employees requires manufacturers to take a closer look at what happens before, during, and after a new hire’s first day.
This practical session will help manufacturing leaders examine the everyday habits and norms within their selection, onboarding, and training processes that can influence whether new employees succeed and stay. Rather than simply identifying the problem, attendees will leave with questions they can use to evaluate their own organization and practical best practices they can begin considering right away.
LOCATION
ZOOM Webinar
COST
There is no cost to attend this webinar, but you must register via the link above.
CONTACT
For questions regarding this webinar, please contact:
Sara Keith
skeith@mdmep.org
