Hello
I am in the process of revising our new employee orientation content. One area that requires attention, but can be a bit of a lengthy lecture is the discussion on the employee handbook. The top 3 topics the handbook discusses are uniforms, appearance, attendance. I am seeking out any ideas others have used to bring a little life to the employee handbook.

Thanks!

Usually, Employee Handbook is like a legal document, which is expected to be "formal", "dry", and "hard to read." If you want to bring a little life, would you be able to include the graphics and self-assessment to it?

I work for a large bank. We have an employee handbook. The bank trusts that each employee will actually read it because all employees are held accountable to what's in it (the one thing that is said in orientation). I think the question is -- what is being accomplished by "training" the content in the handbook? Whether you "beef it up" or not...are you accomplishing anything? If you are, those are the things that will beef it up. Stories. What has happened when people have not followed the guidelines? That's the stuff that people will remember. If it's necessary to "train" stuff that adults should be expected to simply read, then you can make it interesting by focusing on what makes the guidelines important through stories. Good luck.

Another idea is to let everyone read it on their own for "homework" and then play a review game the next day (ala Jeopardy or the like).

Uniforms and appearance may be something better seen than read. Try doing a little home made video of the right way and wrong way and see if employees can pick out which is which.

This is an old problem, not very different from the need to study technical stuff and all thing of boring nature.
I raised the same question in the forum of the fun quizzes site.

http://www.funquizzesclub.com/fun-ways-to-learn-boring-material-615.html#615