Category: Transition Management
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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Discipline in Onboarding
Routines, timelines, and structure to establish control are non-optional components of success. You don’t have to manage them yourself if discipline is not one of your strengths. But you must…
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The Most Important Onboarding Partnership
"Onboarding plans, no matter how well-mapped and detailed, should never result in a hand-off to the new leader. The onboarding plan should be a living document that both the new leader…
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Be Prepared
In general, the more prepared you and your organization are for a crisis, the better you will handle it. This is not about preparing in detail for every possible permutation…
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Onboarding in a Dystopian Obfuscational Corporella
The ideal organization is marked by a transparent focus by all on a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. Unfortunately, many organizations are more dystopian than utopian, more obfuscational than clear,…
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100-Day Action Plans
"As time has passed, we have found line managers wanting more and more assistance in developing onboarding plans—to the point that we have trained all our HR leaders. Now, the…
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