Emotional Onboarding
Emotional Onboarding

All onboarding is emotional.  It's all about moving people's feelings. The process has value Just because all onboarding is emotional does not mean you can relax the process.  The basic…

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Engaging Onboarding
Engaging Onboarding

Sandy Linver suggests five stages of communication: from unaware to aware to understand to believe to action.  It’s a terrific model that has been helpful to a lot of people…

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KISS Messaging in Onboarding
KISS Messaging in Onboarding

Your message is the simplifying tool that makes the complexity of your circumstances and ideas easier for people to understand and remember. Mary Vonnegut and I had a good debate…

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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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The importance of message and communication points
The importance of message and communication points

One of the lessons we keep learning is the importance of driving an overriding message and three communication points.  It keeps coming back - for people onboarding into new roles,…

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Three Leadership Truths
Three Leadership Truths

Three leadership truths: 1) It's not about you 2) Everything communicates 3) Help should be helpful Look at the way Obama is starting up.  Look at the way he talks…

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Message Matters
Message Matters

One of the lessons of last week's U.S. elections was that message matters. That lesson is applicable to any new leader onboarding into any new organization. If you’re the new…

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Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble
Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble

Getting a head start, taking control of the message and building or transforming the team are important in any new job situation. They are that much more important when a…

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