Transition Management Requires Depth

  There was moment in the waning moments of Saturday evening's NCAA Basketball semi-final between UConn and Kentucky when the Kentucky team ran out of gas.  It was just a moment; and during the ensuing time out, their coach, John Calipari, re-energized them.  We'll never know if that was the moment that cost them the [...]

The Right Role for HR in Onboarding

My partner, Rob Gregory, suggests there are three core processes in any organization: strategic, operational and organizational.  Separately, last night, I sat in on Anna Tavis’ wonderful Talent Management class at NYU’s Master’s Program.   Crossing Rob and Anna’s ideas suggests that HR should be the functional leader of the organizational process and its essential overlaps [...]

Definition of Onboarding

We’re in the midst of the final copy-edits on our new book, Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time (Wiley, 2009) and want to make sure we get the definition as right as we can.  Here is what we are currently planning to print: Onboarding is the [...]