Total Onboarding Program

We just launched OnboardingProgram.com. It is an online self managed work stream that guides hiring managers to lead cross functional, integrated efforts to align, acquire, accommodate, assimilate and accelerate new employees for Better Results Faster by cutting out...

In Praise of Timelines and Milestones

Until key players agree on what is getting done by when by whom, you do not have a plan.  Timelines and milestones are the critical link between theoretical plans and meaningful actions.  This is applicable on both sides of onboarding. For the hiring manager,...

Definition of Onboarding

In a recent article in BusinessWeek, Joseph Daniel McCool defines onboarding as “Crucial Feedback for Executive Hires – An emerging ritual to measure performance 90, 100, or 120 days into a top manager’s new job”.  Others define onboarding as...

Leadership and onboarding signs and symbols

The Jets humbled the Titans twice this week.  Once in Sunday’s football game.  Once during congressional hearings.  I’ll leave the football commentary to someone else and stick with lessons about signs and symbols to be drawn from the U.S. auto...