William Flamme wrote about some of his takeaways from Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time in the most recent issue of ExecuNet’s Career Smart Advisor. Three big points:
The Three Stages of a Hiring Manager
Producer – Assembles the team and resources
Director – Helps create the plan
Stage Manager – Proved behind the scenes support
Buying and Selling at the Same Time
Hiring managers need to pre-sell while recruiting.
Orientation is Not Onboarding
The hiring manager must take ownership of the whole onboarding process from before the first contact to well past the end of the first 100-days.
George Bradt – PrimeGenesis Executive Onboarding and Transition Acceleration
