Tag: new role
Don’t Lead Until You Have Earned the Right to Lead in a New Job
“About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months.” As Anne Fisher points out in a recent Fortune article, this has been true…
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Announcing New Leader Smart Tools iPad app
In response to a need for even smarter and even more immediately actionable guidance on how to succeed as a new leader in today's turbulent job landscape, I am thrilled…
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Title and role are different
Webster defines a CEO as "the executive with the chief decision-making authority in an organization or business" The trouble is that that is not always the case. Sometimes the "Chairman"…
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Surprise! Your Role has Changed
Often the trickiest onboarding challenges take place when your role changes suddenly. This happens when you are asked to pick up the pieces following another executive's sudden departure, whether he…
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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
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
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
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
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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