Year: 2009
Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough
Currently spending a couple of days with a couple of my kids in China. Every time I come over here I am struck by the palpable hunger in the air. …
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Transformational Leadership and Onboarding
Webster defines transform as to change, and lead as to guide. Thus transformational leadership is about guiding change - as is onboarding. Two-way transformation Transformational leadership is two-way. Leaders transform…
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Onboarding Results
No one cares about you. What they care about are the results that you and your team deliver. This is why Better Results Faster is such an important pivot point.…
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Sink or Swim Approach to Onboarding
A lot of organizations now think about advanced onboarding as giving new employees a list of 15-20 stakeholders for them to have one-on-one sessions with during their first week to…
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Frequently Asked Questions
We're happy to try to answer any question we can from anyone, whether you're going into a new job or role yourself, bringing someone into work for you, dealing with…
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Onboarding Orientations: Accommodation or Assimilation?
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…
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Real Onboarding
Just finished Byrne Murphy’s excellent book, “Le Deal” about the startup of ArthurGlen’s designer outlet centers in Europe. It’s a great story about how Byrne and his colleagues learned to…
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Rapport-Talk
Deborah Tannen wrote a piece in The New York Times, 11/29/09 on “Donahue Talked, Oprah Listened” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29tannen.html. In it she makes the point that Oprah took what Donahue had done…
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Onboarding: what, why and how
Excerpts from an interview I did this week. More later when the interview is published. What is onboarding? Activities to acquire, accommodate, assimilate and accelerate new team members Why do…
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