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Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams

April 1, 2010 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

We are working with a major humanitarian aid organization on a pro-bono basis to think through how to put in place a program to jump-start their Disaster Operations Teams. (Every single one of you knows this group.) This requests your help in taking that thinking to the next level. Please send any and all comments [...]

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Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs

February 20, 2010 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

Purposeful integration is essential This is why it’s so important to get stakeholders aligned around the organization’s purpose, a Total Onboarding Program and recruiting brief before starting to recruit. Get a head start. Everything communicates This is why it’s so important to manage your messages during talent acquisition, pre-selling while buying and taking a strategic [...]

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Contextual Onboarding

February 2, 2010 By George Bradt 1 Comment

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. [...]

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Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue

January 7, 2010 By George Bradt 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 [...]

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Hundred Days: useful or folly?

March 22, 2009 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

The Wall Street Journal’s David Greenberg recently wrote about “The Folly of the “Hundred Days”. He argues that the “hundred days” term has been an unreliable indicator for presidential success, placing too much emphasis on easily quantifiable early achievements. David’s article is at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123759302359600669.html?goback=.anh_1830907 Unreliable for heads of state, useful for new executives. It has [...]

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