L&D Backstage: Turning Complexity into Clarity for New Starters - Insights from an Onboarding Learning Project
🛠️ Backstage: Practical show & tell sessions. Present your projects step-by-step, showcasing design and implementation. Real-world insights, straight to the point.
✨ Participation: Presentation + Q&A at the end
Join us as we go behind the scenes of the Tour Book project – an ambitious global onboarding initiative built to help new starters understand the big picture from day one, designed and delivered by our speaker, Vesela Daskalova.
How do you make a complex global organization understandable to someone on day one? In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of the Tour Book project—an ambitious learning resource created to help new starters grasp the big picture of our business, from how we drive clinical research to how every department contributes. You’ll hear how we navigated cross-functional collaboration and designed with both consistency and flexibility in mind. Whether you’re building onboarding from scratch or refreshing an existing approach, this session offers practical insights, pitfalls to avoid, and lessons learned from a truly global build.
Key Insights:
📖 Discover the Power of Flipbooks for Onboarding
Explore how a flipbook format can transform complex organizational information into a visually engaging, user-friendly resource for new starters.🎮 Make Learning Stick with Gamification
Learn practical ways to incorporate gamified elements into your onboarding design to boost engagement, interaction, and learner motivation.🎯 Design with Purpose: KPIs as Your Compass
Understand how to align your learning design with business objectives by building with key performance indicators in mind from the start.🌐 Collaborate Across Borders with Confidence
Gain strategies for navigating the challenges of global collaboration—managing stakeholders, aligning content, and maintaining momentum across time zones.
See you there!
Joana Alex.
About the Speaker:
Vesela Daskalova is a versatile learning professional whose journey into L&D began during her early career in HR consulting, where she saw firsthand the role learning plays in driving meaningful change. This led her to transition into an in-house L&D role, allowing her to focus on creating cutting-edge learning experiences with real impact. Vesela designs and delivers both e-learning and face-to-face solutions for internal teams and external clients, and she facilitates sessions herself. She also serves as a dedicated learning partner to one of the company’s key business areas, aligning learning efforts with strategic goals.