Category: Team & Culture
Start onboarding by stopping
Onboarding begins with your business objectives. Start by stopping to figure out what you want to accomplish and how you expect your future new employee to deliver or contribute to…
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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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Skip-level management requires an adjustment
Skip-level management requires more frequent, more directive interventions than does direct management. The Leadership Pipeline by Charan, Drotter, et al lays out critical career transitions: …
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The Words are Not the Message
We have all been taught the importance of staying on message. Unfortunately, "message" is one of those over-used words that has come to mean different things to different people. Let's…
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The importance of resiliency
Last evening over dinner, psychologist Dr. Julia Hawgood suggested a one word explanation for the difference between those that are able to recover from a misfortune like losing a job…
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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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