I was in China last week where internet access to anything related to PrimeGenesis is completely blocked. Couldn't use PrimeGenesis email. Couldn't look at PrimeGenesis websites. And, as I'm sure, you all noticed, couldn't post anything on the PrimeGenesis blog. People joining almost any new organization face the same issue. Their communication is blocked – [...]
Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed
January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Few question the wisdom of Jim Collins’ prescription to “get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus.” (Good to Great, Harper Business, 2001). The debate is about timing and emphasis in moving on the people. Almost every experienced CEO that has addressed the [...]
Total Onboarding Program
January 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Ed Bancroft and I are just finishing the final content edits on our new book The Total Onboarding Program. This one is designed to be the companion workbook to Onboarding – How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time to help organizations implement a systemic approach to onboarding. I’m happy [...]
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 [...]
Onboarding Results
December 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
No one cares about you. What they care about are the results that you and your team deliver. This is why Better Results Faster is such an important pivot point. 100-day Action Plans People that prepare and implement 100-day action plans deliver Better Results Faster than those that do not. It is easy to see [...]