Category: Team & Culture
Onboarding lessons from faled Hail Mary play by Yale
Those of you relying on this blog for your news can rest easy. Harvard came from behind 10-0 in the final six minutes of The Game yesterday to beat Yale…
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Onboarding Preparedness – The Difference between Harvard and Yale
November 23, 1968. Last minute of The Game. Harvard just scored to draw within 8 points of Yale, 21-29. Everybody in the stadium knows Harvard is going to try an…
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I can't do what he does
Final episode of this season's "Mad Men". They create a new advertising agency and pull together, in order, the visionary leader, creative head and accounts head. They're reluctantly considering the…
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Disciplined Onboarding
When onboarding into a new role yourself or bringing someone else in, you don't have to follow an orderly or prescribed pattern of behavior. You can just jump in and…
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Onboarding Issue: Poor First Impressions
Everything communicates 24/7 forever - everything people say and do and don’t say and don’t do, all the time, but especially on day one. People remember their first experience with…
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First, don't lose. Then win, when onboarding.
I won on the golf course last weekend. In truth, it wasn’t so much that I won as that my opponent lost. On one water hole, I hit around the…
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Onboarding Issue: Surprising Stakeholders
Another basic that way too many organizations miss way too many times is informing key stakeholders about the start of a new employee. This takes many different forms ranging from…
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Onboarding Issue: Neglecting the Basics
It’s amazing how many people show up for work not able to work because they don’t have a computer or phone or desk or office or light or what they…
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Set the Stage for New Employee Success
William Flamme wrote about some of his takeaways from Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time in the most recent issue of ExecuNet's…
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