Category: Leadership Skills
New onboarding tools
We've added new tools for both "The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan" and "Onboarding" on those books' tools sites. (Get to the right site by following the link at the…
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Who are you taking for granted?
I walked away from a ten-year relationship with a supplier this week because they made me feel bad. I've been staying in their hotel on a regular basis since 2000…
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Internal Consistency
I had worked flat out for 16 hours writing up a market share summary. It went through countless iterations as it worked its way up my management ladder. Finally, my…
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Onboarding on the fly
Bad idea. Onboarding on the fly with no preparation has a low probability of success. An awful lot of things come down to what you want and what you are…
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Unseen Onboarding Traps
A lady drowned on a crowded beach at the end of Long Island a couple of weeks ago. Everybody that was on the beach at the time will remember the…
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Erroneous Onboarding Assumptions
I'm giving a talk on onboarding in Lima, Peru this morning. I've decided to turn it into a conversation instead of a talk because I'm not sure which of my…
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Persistence
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison Pick your cliche. We've heard it over…
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Trust III – Building Trust on an Ongoing Basis
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Trust II – Building Trust During Your First 100-Days
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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