“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”. So says Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer in “What Really Motivates Workers” in the Jan/Feb 2010 Harvard Business Review based on their research with 600+ managers. So what? Amabile and [...]
Creating Time While Onboarding
April 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How can managers create more time? They can’t. All they can do is reallocate it. While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they can take advantage of others’ time as well. How they do that is one of the main differences between more effective and less effective managers. [...]
The Right Role for HR in Onboarding
March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My partner, Rob Gregory, suggests there are three core processes in any organization: strategic, operational and organizational. Separately, last night, I sat in on Anna Tavis’ wonderful Talent Management class at NYU’s Master’s Program. Crossing Rob and Anna’s ideas suggests that HR should be the functional leader of the organizational process and its essential overlaps [...]
Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The creation of a personal onboarding plan is one of the crucial pivot points of onboarding well. The earlier this can be accomplished in the process the better. The more thought that is put into this, the better. The more thoroughly this is executed, the better. Partnership is key We’ve seen all sorts of people [...]
Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue
January 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the past several weeks, we’ve laid out 11 onboarding issues with 11 suggestions for how to deal with them. (They are recapped below.) The overriding issue The overriding issue is that dealing with each of these 11 issues is not good enough without dealing with poor hand-offs between players. The suggestion Our suggestion is [...]