Category: Transition Management
Onboarding Time Line
To make onboarding run like clockwork for your prospects, candidates, recruiting partners, and the people in your organization, organize your process with a detailed time line. Time lines minimize most…
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Onboarding master class idea – Onboarding Program Metrics
Scorecard - Total Onboarding Program Metrics Have a system to track and measure onboarding progress. Think about looking at dimensions like these (plus many more): Business Results Change in organization's…
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Onboarding master class idea – Stable of Mentors and Coaches
Create a stable of internal and external mentors, coaches and transition accelerators ready to help accelerate groups. To build expertise and institutionalize knowledge, have periodic meetings of the people in…
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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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