Four important ideas from Wharton professors last week: Be decisive – Michael Useem Save more earlier – Olivia Mitchell Buy stocks – Jeremy Siegel Advertise on TV – Peter Fader Applause please. I just saved you four hours. Actually, the conversations each of these professors put around these ideas were compelling and well worth participating [...]
Onboarding Decisions
Onboarding Progress
“…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 [...]
Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
I was struck by Simon Sinek’s TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now and click through to www.TED.com and get familiar with them. Many of them are truly astounding.) One of Simon’s core concepts is that people don’t [...]
Contextual Onboarding
In many ways, all onboarding is contextual. It’s about acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating a new team member into the context of the organization. PrimeGenesis’ three core onboarding ideas must be considered in context. Get a head start Aligning the organization before starting recruiting defines the context of the role for the new team member. [...]
The importance of message and communication points
One of the lessons we keep learning is the importance of driving an overriding message and three communication points. It keeps coming back – for people onboarding into new roles, for people onboarding others into new roles, for people interviewing, being interviewed, selling, presenting, campaigning, or trying to persuade anyone to do anything. I had [...]