Category: Transition Management
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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Onboarding master class idea – Continuous Sourcing
Create a culture of continuous sourcing Direct and train your managers always to be on the lookout for potentially good additions to their teams, internally and externally. Managers will improve…
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Onboarding master class idea – Messaging
Re-look at overall messaging on an annual basis as part of your normal succession planning and talent management processes. Get everyone aligned around the overall messaging that they will cascade…
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Onboarding master class idea – Total Onboarding Programs
Embed Total Onboarding Programs in your normal succession planning and talent management processes. As you examine what roles you need to fill in the future, get everyone aligned around hypothetical…
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Onboarding Notions
"Hurry up. Toytime is over. Everyone is back from books. It's time for preces." This was my welcome into my new school, Winchester College. What was abundantly clear was that…
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Destination-back succession planning
Living in the moment is often a freeing concept. Evolving from the current state is a way to move forward. But, if you want to increase your chances of achieving…
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Onboarding: Ready. Aim. Fire.
If you think about people engaged in a physical activity in which they use something to hit something else, they must get their tools ready, aim and then fire. Onboarding…
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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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