Year: 2010
Choose Optimistic Onboarding
None of us can control everything. But we can choose how we react to events. Choosing optimism and its associated hopefulness and confidence can be infectuous. Organizations marked by hopefulness…
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It’s not worth the effort even to try to get managers to care about onboarding
They just don't care about another "HR" process. But they do care about delivering results. So, focus your efforts there, with onboarding as a tool. I learned the ABCs of…
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What Choices Direct Actions
"Strategy" may be one of the most mis-used business words around. Just as many teenagers seem to punctuate their sentences with "like", "you know", "what I'm trying to say", and…
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Duck a la Onboarding
We all know how ducks look calm on the surface while paddling like mad underneath the water. That is exactly the approach you should take to onboarding - and perhaps…
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Value Creation vs. Value Extraction
Maurie Cashman has some interesting thoughts about linking employee goals to an organization's exit strategy. The quotes he's pulled from Lou Dubois' piece in Inc, get at goal setting. I…
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The Only 3 Interview Questions
Any question you've ever asked in any interview or been asked in any interview is a subset of one of three questions getting at strengths, motivation and fit. 1. Can…
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Rock-solid, crystal-clear onboarding process we never follow
We pride ourselves on having a rock-solid, crystal-clear onboarding process that we never follow. Do you know the old adage about learning the rules before you break them? Well we…
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"Speak only if you can improve upon the silence."
In a world in which we're all attacked by an ever-growing cacophony of sights, sounds, smells, beeps, creeps and sleep-depriving tweets, silence is increasingly golden. (Of course, this is from…
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Influence vs. Control when Onboarding
As we're working through the upcoming 3rd edition of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, we're challenging ourselves on what new leaders control vs influence. New leaders should take control…
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