Category: Team & Culture
Onboarding Into a Family-run Company
In many ways, joining a family-run company is no different than joining any other organization. The seven risks of onboarding still apply (organization, role, personal, learning, relationships, delivery, adjustment). The…
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Pause to accelerate
This week has been different. More people downloaded onboarding tools from our book. More people told me they are starting new jobs. It felt different. It felt better. People onboarding…
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Onboarding: Direction, Leadership, Team
We continue to look at onboarding from two perspectives: from the perspective of the leader moving into a new position; and from the perspective of the hiring manager bringing someone…
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ONBOARDING INTO THE COMMUNITY
Henry Mintzberg has some interesting thoughts in the July-August 2009 Harvard Business Review on “Rebuilding Companies as Communities”. He suggests that “Middle managers, who see the connections between operations and…
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In Praise of Milestones
Dominique was 60 days into onboarding into a new job and had asked for progress updates from her direct reports. She was told things were going fine. While she hoped…
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Preparation – Delivery – Follow Through
Successful onboarding requires preparation, delivery and follow through on everyones part. But then again, this is true of most meaningful endeavors. PREPARATION The fundamental messages out of both our books…
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Aspiration and Invitation
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. At this week's Cornerstone International Group conference, Kevin Turner…
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Cornerstone International Group
Events | Cornerstone International Group | George Bradt | 2009 - 2012
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