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The Total Onboarding Program

Guide has tools, agendas and slides to help human capital professionals systematize onboarding The Total Onboarding Program (Bradt & Bancroft, Wiley/Pfeiffer 2010) is a loose leaf guide and flash drive filled with tools and the meeting and workshop agendas and slides that internal and external human capital professionals need to sell-in and implement an organization-wide, [...]

Heidrick and Struggles study of 20,000 searches highlights need for onboarding improvements

PrimeGenesis has reduced onboarding failures from 40% to 10%.  There is no excuse for others not to follow. “We’ve found that  40 per cent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months. It’s expensive in terms of lost revenue. It’s expensive in terms of the individual’s hiring. [...]

An Odyssey of Volcanic Choices

Odyssey April 2010

Not content with its contributions to the global banking crisis, Iceland decided to wreck havoc on Europe’s travelers by flooding the air with volcanic ash.  I had the good fortune to be in Vilnius, Lithuania when travel was shut down and got to meet a wonderfully diverse set of people as I worked my way [...]