Category: Transition Management
Set the Stage for New Employee Success
William Flamme wrote about some of his takeaways from Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time in the most recent issue of ExecuNet's…
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Onboarding Issue: Doing it to them
One organization had everyone follow the same orientation, day one and week one plans with an endless parade of people wandering around their offices for meet and greets. Unfortunately, key…
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Onboarding issue: Pyrrhic victories in closing the sale
One organization pushed very hard to close the sale with a reluctant candidate who met all their criteria for success. The candidate was willing, but her spouse thought it was…
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Onboarding Issue: Separating Buying and Selling
One organization used a trial by fire approach to interviewing, pushing candidates very hard with case studies and deep, probing questions. Once they identified people to hire, they would switch…
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Onboarding Issue: Recruiting Sequentially
One organization met their ideal candidate almost as soon as they started their recruiting. They focused all their efforts on that candidate and ran him through 15 interviews over an…
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Onboarding Forum
About 40 Chief Executive Officers and talent management experts gathered at the Penn Club in NYC this past Monday, September 21, for a CEO Connection Forum to discuss onboarding from…
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Onboarding Issue: Operating in Isolation
One organization hired a new global head of customer service. Unfortunately the division managers thought they were in charge of customer service for their divisions and did everything they possibly…
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Onboarding issue: Solving the Wrong Problem
One organization hired a new Controller for one of its divisions. A week after she started, the company decided to merge her division with another and eliminated her job. The…
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Onboarding – An Integrated Approach to Recruiting, Orienting and Managing New Employees
The core premise of our new book, Onboarding[1], is that things work better when all efforts to recruit, orient, and manage new employees point in the same direction, integrated into…
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