When you onboard into a new role, or any time you try to change things, your efforts will have supporters, watcher, and detractors. The most dangerous are the covert detractors. To deal with them, you have to uncover them. In that effort, look for people who: are out for revenge against you or your allies [...]
Inspire and Enable: From 3E to 5E Onboarding
June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Procter & Gamble recently switched from driving 3E leadership to 5E leadership. At a very high level, 3E leadership is Envision, Engage and Execute. 5E adds Energize/Inspire and Enable to the mix to get to: ENVISION: Create the future ENGAGE: Build relationships & Collaboration ENERGIZE: Inspire others ENABLE: Build capability EXECUTE: Deliver outstanding results My [...]
Total Onboarding Program
February 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We just launched OnboardingProgram.com. It is an online self managed work stream that guides hiring managers to lead cross functional, integrated efforts to align, acquire, accommodate, assimilate and accelerate new employees for Better Results Faster by cutting out the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of uncoordinated recruiting, orienting and management efforts. The program is based on our [...]
ONBOARDING: How to get your new employees up to speed in half the time
October 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Wiley has commissioned Mary Vonnegut and me to write ONBOARDING: How to get your new employees up to speed in half the time. It will be on shelves (and available on our site: www.primegenesis.com) in 2009. Some organizations conduct orientation programs for their new employees. Some make sure their new employees have the tools they [...]
Role Risk
September 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Of the seven things that most often lead to executives’ failing in their first 18 months in a new job, role risk is particularly hard to get a handle on. Role risk occurs when expectations and resources or key stakeholders are not aligned. This is complicated by hopes and perceptions across key stakeholders rarely matching [...]