Category: Leadership Skills
Onboarding master class idea – Newcomers' Club
Create a newcomers’ club with executive sponsors A newcomers’ club helps new employees learn from each other’s and executive sponsors’ experiences and connections. It gives executives opportunities to: get informal…
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Onboarding master class idea – monthly group orientations
Set aside one day each month for group orientations This will allow you to make the orientations a bigger deal with more regular senior management involvement. Monthly orientation also facilitates…
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Onboarding master class idea – Prototypical Day One Agenda
Create a prototypical day one agenda that you can adjust to fit each new employee’s situation Continually evaluate and evolve that prototypical agenda as you learn. Here's one possible prototypical…
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Onboarding master class idea – Systematize Accommodation
Systematize accommodation so you don’t have to reinvent it every time Accommodation is one of those areas where being “good enough” cost effectively is all you need. Spend your time…
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Onboarding master class idea – Announcement Cascade
Run announcement cascade plans past the Onboarding Plan review board to further cross-fertilization of the best ideas in announcement cascades while deepening the knowledge and skills of the onboarding managers…
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Onboarding master class idea – Onboarding Plan Review Board
Create an Onboarding Plan review board to provide managers and their new employees input on personal onboarding plans. A review board supports cross-fertilization of the best ideas in personal onboarding…
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The Secret of Happiness (per Harvard class of 1980)
The secret of happiness is apparent from the most recent survey of Harvard's class of 1980. It turns out happiness is good. Actually, there are three goods. Everyone strives for…
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Onboarding master class idea – Strategic Selling training
Make training on strategic selling mandatory for all managers Everybody can benefit from deliberate practice in strategic selling because everybody can do a better job of understanding others’ needs, figuring…
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Onboarding master class idea – monthly interview days
Set aside one day each month for interviews All appropriate managers should keep these days open whenever possible. A fixed, monthly interview day makes it easier to schedule candidates for…
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