Set aside one day each month for group orientations This will allow you to make the orientations a bigger deal with more regular senior management involvement. Monthly orientation also facilitates creation of onboarding cohorts. [This is adapted from Onboarding (Bradt and Vonnegut, Wiley 2009) and expanded in The Total Onboarding Program (Bradt and Bancroft, Wiley/Pfeiffer [...]
Onboarding Orientations: Accommodation or Assimilation?
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There’s nothing wrong with orientations as part of onboarding per se. There’s a lot wrong with orientations as an accommodation tool instead of an assimilation tool. Let’s back up. Onboarding is about acquiring, accommodating, assimilation and accelerating new team members. Accommodating is about enabling new team members to do work. Assimilation is about enabling new [...]