Category: Leadership Skills
Onboarding Orientations: Accommodation or Assimilation?
There's nothing wrong with orientations as part of onboarding per se. There's a lot wrong with orientations as an accommodation tool instead of an assimilation tool. Let's back up. Onboarding…
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Real Onboarding
Just finished Byrne Murphy’s excellent book, “Le Deal” about the startup of ArthurGlen’s designer outlet centers in Europe. It’s a great story about how Byrne and his colleagues learned to…
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Rapport-Talk
Deborah Tannen wrote a piece in The New York Times, 11/29/09 on “Donahue Talked, Oprah Listened” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29tannen.html. In it she makes the point that Oprah took what Donahue had done…
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Onboarding: what, why and how
Excerpts from an interview I did this week. More later when the interview is published. What is onboarding? Activities to acquire, accommodate, assimilate and accelerate new team members Why do…
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Onboarding lessons from faled Hail Mary play by Yale
Those of you relying on this blog for your news can rest easy. Harvard came from behind 10-0 in the final six minutes of The Game yesterday to beat Yale…
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Onboarding Preparedness – The Difference between Harvard and Yale
November 23, 1968. Last minute of The Game. Harvard just scored to draw within 8 points of Yale, 21-29. Everybody in the stadium knows Harvard is going to try an…
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I can't do what he does
Final episode of this season's "Mad Men". They create a new advertising agency and pull together, in order, the visionary leader, creative head and accounts head. They're reluctantly considering the…
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Disciplined Onboarding
When onboarding into a new role yourself or bringing someone else in, you don't have to follow an orderly or prescribed pattern of behavior. You can just jump in and…
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Onboarding Issue: Poor First Impressions
Everything communicates 24/7 forever - everything people say and do and don’t say and don’t do, all the time, but especially on day one. People remember their first experience with…
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