It’s not clear when onboarding stops and regular management begins. Some would argue that it’s all about the first day, week, month, 90-days, 100-days, six months or longer. Maybe. The issue The issue is that leaving new employees to their own devices before they’re ready to do everything is counter productive. No one hires anyone [...]
Transformational Leadership and Onboarding
December 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Webster defines transform as to change, and lead as to guide. Thus transformational leadership is about guiding change – as is onboarding. Two-way transformation Transformational leadership is two-way. Leaders transform followers and followers transform leaders at the same time. This is the case in onboarding. New team members transform teams at the same time that [...]
Great Leadership
June 24, 2008 By 3 Comments
Some thoughts on great leadership. The more we get into this, the more we’re becoming convinced that it’s all about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose Three truths leaders should keep in mind: 1) It’s not about you. (It’s about those “others” following [...]
Create – Control – Connect
June 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Three words can make a huge difference to your onboarding success: create – control – connect CREATE Day One is a critical pivot point for people joining from outside the company. The same is true for the formal announcement of someone getting promoted from within. In both situations you can CREATE time and accelerate progress [...]