Category: Team & Culture
Onboarding others does not work
Onboarding others does not work. Fortunately, you can help them onboard. On the other hand, new employees can not onboard themselves by themselves. Fortunately, they can make great strides in…
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The Will to Prepare to Win Together when Onboarding
Football coach Vince Lombardi put it well, "The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win." Most people have the will to win.…
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Who is in charge of onboarding?
Do not try to get line managers to focus on onboarding It is futile to try to get line managers to care about onboarding. They do not think they have…
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Contextual Onboarding
In many ways, all onboarding is contextual. It's about acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating a new team member into the context of the organization. PrimeGenesis' three core onboarding ideas must…
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Communication Blockages in Onboarding
I was in China last week where internet access to anything related to PrimeGenesis is completely blocked. Couldn't use PrimeGenesis email. Couldn't look at PrimeGenesis websites. And, as I'm sure,…
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Haiti and Crisis Management
What’s happening as a result of the earthquake in Haiti is so overwhelming that no amount of preparation could have mitigated the worst of the disaster. Yet, the basics of…
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The importance of message and communication points
One of the lessons we keep learning is the importance of driving an overriding message and three communication points. It keeps coming back - for people onboarding into new roles,…
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Total Onboarding Program
Ed Bancroft and I are just finishing the final content edits on our new book The Total Onboarding Program. This one is designed to be the companion workbook to Onboarding…
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Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue
Over the past several weeks, we’ve laid out 11 onboarding issues with 11 suggestions for how to deal with them. (They are recapped below.) The overriding issue The overriding issue…
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