Category: Executive Onboarding
Manage Major Business Transformations In Stages
Transformational change requires aligning plans, people and practices around a shared purpose. Tackling those pieces with the right approach and resources step-by-step in stages instead of all at once is…
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Survey Highlights Successful Onboarding Strategies for Salespeople
Sales Architects’ 2012 “Salesperson Onboarding Survey” illustrates how comprehensive onboarding programs can increase employee engagement and drive faster results. Some of the most striking data in the survey, which will…
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Every New Leader Faces Recall Elections. Survive Yours.
Every new leader faces recall elections. The key to surviving your recalls is getting the support of the people that vote and the people that influence those that vote. There’s…
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For a Successful Job Search: Solve Someone’s Problem
The surest way to get a new job is to solve someone's problem. Follow these three steps: Focus on the other someone - your target audience Get at their unsolved…
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What Facebook Must Do To Transfer Acquired Karma’s Karma
The hard side of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, the data transfer, is relatively easy. The soft side is harder and where Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg et al need to focus…
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Don’t Lead Until You Have Earned the Right to Lead in a New Job
“About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months.” As Anne Fisher points out in a recent Fortune article, this has been true…
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New Ideas in Onboarding Thought Leadership
Here are the three main takeaways for organizations and leaders: Deploy a systemic integrated approach to onboarding – Get key stakeholders aligned before starting to recruit, and then integrate recruiting,…
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The Cure for Incompetent Onboarding
The conscious competence model applies: - Unconscious Competence: Have the knowledge and the skills. (Can make music.) - Conscious Competence: Have the knowledge, but not the skills. (Know how to…
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A BRAVE New Approach to Finding a Job
If what you’re currently doing to find a job isn’t yielding the results you want, adjust your efforts by asking yourself these five questions: Where play? (Environment) What matters?…
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