Category: Executive Onboarding
Warm Onboarding Beats Cold Starts
Cold openings surprise, engage, and sometimes shock people. Very effective for Saturday Night Live. Great way to start a speech, toast or talk. Effective way to send a message to…
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Publish your opening hours during onboarding
I know it's old school, but I decided to go to an actual store this morning to buy a Christmas present. Busy day, so I decided to get there early. …
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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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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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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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Culture and Character: Intersecting Pieces of the Onboarding Puzzle
An organization's culture is the sum total of the characters of the individuals in the organization. The addition of any single individual impacts the culture and the culture impacts the…
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