Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans
Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans

The creation of a personal onboarding plan is one of the crucial pivot points of onboarding well.  The earlier this can be accomplished in the process the better.  The more…

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Onboarding others does not work
Onboarding others does not work

Onboarding others does not work.  Fortunately, you can help them onboard. On the other hand, new employees can not onboard themselves by themselves.  Fortunately, they can make great strides in…

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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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Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough
Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough

Currently spending a couple of days with a couple of my kids in China.  Every time I come over here I am struck by the palpable hunger in the air. …

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Onboarding Preparedness – The Difference between Harvard and Yale
Onboarding Preparedness – The Difference between Harvard and Yale

November 23, 1968.  Last minute of The Game.  Harvard just scored to draw within 8 points of Yale, 21-29.  Everybody in the stadium knows Harvard is going to try an…

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Rebuilding Business Stamina While Onboarding After A Layoff
Rebuilding Business Stamina While Onboarding After A Layoff

John Paul Newport’s recent article on Tiger’s Search for Golf Stamina (Wall Street Journal March 7, 2009) has some ideas directly applicable to business leaders onboarding into new positions –…

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