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Onboarding as an Individual Contributor

January 9, 2012 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

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Both leaders and individual contributors build teams by inspiring and enabling others. Individual contributors need to rely even more heavily on influencing skills across the five building blocks of a high performing team:

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The Next First (and Only) 100 Days

December 11, 2011 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

Cover of Franklin D. Roosevelt In his recent New York Times column, The Next First (and Only) 100 Days, Thomas Friedman makes the point that Since F.D.R., we’ve measured presidents by their “first 100 days.” But now it’s really “the only 100 days.” He goes on to talk about the need for the next president [...]

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Job #1 of a Leader: Show Up

June 29, 2011 By George Bradt Leave a Comment

While everything communicates, many won’t believe what you say. They’ll wait to see what you do. When leaders truly believe something is important they don’t trust in words alone

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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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