Wiley has commissioned Mary Vonnegut and me to write ONBOARDING: How to get your new employees up to speed in half the time. It will be on shelves (and available on our site: www.www.www.primegenesis.com) in 2009.
Some organizations conduct orientation programs for their new employees. Some make sure their new employees have the tools they need to do their own work on day one. Some extend onboarding beyond these accommodating activities to things designed to help new employees assimilate into the organization and work with others.
All of these things are important and necessary, but nowhere near sufficient to get new employees up to speed fast enough. Employers need to flip their perspective on the whole talent acquisition process so that they can use every piece of it as part of onboarding. Employers should think about things from their new employees’ perspective so that they change your view of onboarding from things they do to their new employees to things the employer does with them, for them, or help them do.
The book is going to help employers do three things:
I – Set the stage for success even before their new employees sign up
II – Help their new employees get a head start before day one
III – Enable and inspire their new employees to deliver better results faster on the job
We have a working draft of the executive summary parked on the PrimeGenesis website at: www.www.www.primegenesis.com/landingOnB.html.
George Bradt
PrimeGenesis Executive Onboarding and Transition Acceleration
