Category: Team & Culture
Managing Onboarding Risks
Risk is the possibility of suffering a harmful event. Recently, we’ve all seen that managing risk is not the same as ignoring it or avoiding it, and that even managed…
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Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
I was struck by Simon Sinek's TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now…
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Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan [i] lays out a methodology for leaders and their teams to get done in 100-days what normally takes six to twelve months. In a…
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Judo Onboarding
Judo onboarding is the art of adapting well to changing circumstances and using someone else’s momentum to further your aims as you onboard into a new job. There are three…
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Creating Time While Onboarding
How can managers create more time? They can’t. All they can do is reallocate it. While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they…
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Dealing with the unexpected
Not content with its contributions to the global banking crisis, the powers that be in Iceland decided to wreck havoc on Europe’s travelers last week by flooding the air with…
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Onboarding Step-by-Step
One important onboarding best practice is to pay attention. When I was 14 years old, I had lunch with the headmaster of the Eton school in England. After a glass…
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Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams
We are working with a major humanitarian aid organization on a pro-bono basis to think through how to put in place a program to jump-start their Disaster Operations Teams. (Every…
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Why invest in onboarding? Impact.
TED sent out an email this morning that highlighted, among other things, talks by actress Pasty Rodenburg and musician Robert Gupta. At one point in their talks, each explained why…
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