Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams
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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Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs
Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs

Purposeful integration is essential This is why it’s so important to get stakeholders aligned around the organization’s purpose, a Total Onboarding Program and recruiting brief before starting to recruit.  Get…

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Contextual Onboarding
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
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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Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed
Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed

Few question the wisdom of Jim Collins’ prescription to “get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus.” …

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Poor Hand-Offs: The Overriding Onboarding Issue
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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Transformational Leadership and Onboarding
Transformational Leadership and Onboarding

Webster defines transform as to change, and lead as to guide.  Thus transformational leadership is about guiding change - as is onboarding. Two-way transformation Transformational leadership is two-way.  Leaders transform…

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Onboarding Results
Onboarding Results

No one cares about you.  What they care about are the results that you and your team deliver.  This is why Better Results Faster is such an important pivot point.…

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Total Onboarding Program
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…

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