The Stupid Edition of Intuition

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  Sometimes letting people trust their guts is a very good thing.  Sometimes it’s not.  Here’s one way to think about the difference. Conscious Competence Model Consider the conscious competence model.  People learning new things move from: unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence to unconscious competence The move from unconscious competence to conscious [...]

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 [...]

Creating Time While Onboarding

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. [...]

Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs

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 [...]

Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans

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 [...]