Category: Team & Culture
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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Trust III – Building Trust on an Ongoing Basis
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Trust II – Building Trust During Your First 100-Days
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Trust I – Building Trust Before Onboarding
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Crisis Management: Be Do Say
Good article by Peter S. Goodman in the New York Times (8/22/10) on “In Case of Emergency: What Not to Do”. He looks at how British Petroleum, Toyota, and Goldman…
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Gustavus Smith’s Onboarding
This is a true story of one of the worst onboarding cases in history as told by Wharton Professor Michael Useem. May 31, 1862. The Union forces were about to…
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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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