Tag: business leadership
Onboarding Results – Process Tradeoff
The world is full of people so focused on process that they forget about results. They think that if they do everything right, good things will happen. It's also full…
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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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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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Team 100-Day Action Plans for the new year
It’s not clear when onboarding stops and regular management begins. Some would argue that it’s all about the first day, week, month, 90-days, 100-days, six months or longer. Maybe. The…
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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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The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential
One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This…
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Great Leadership
Some thoughts on great leadership. The more we get into this, the more we're becoming convinced that it's all about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together…
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Create – Control – Connect
Three words can make a huge difference to your onboarding success: create – control – connect CREATE Day One is a critical pivot point for people joining from outside the…
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