Tag: onboarding best practice
Unseen Onboarding Traps
A lady drowned on a crowded beach at the end of Long Island a couple of weeks ago. Everybody that was on the beach at the time will remember the…
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Erroneous Onboarding Assumptions
I'm giving a talk on onboarding in Lima, Peru this morning. I've decided to turn it into a conversation instead of a talk because I'm not sure which of my…
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People, Plans and Practices (In that order)
As time passes, I'm becoming more and more convinced that you can improve the performance of almost any organization by tightening the alignment of its people, plans and practices around…
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Better Results Faster…Than What?
I was reminded last week that Better Results Faster is not always the right approach. Louis is joining a private company to help take it public in about a year.…
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Trust III – Building Trust on an Ongoing Basis
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Trust I – Building Trust Before Onboarding
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an…
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Onboarding into a Soap Opera
TV Soap Operas Most television series devolve into soap operas over time. As explained in that source of all true knowledge, Wikipedia, “most soap operas follow the lives of a…
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Onboarding Politics
Eleven jurors thought former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was guilty of several mis-deeds including trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. One juror held out because she thought it was…
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Fitting in and standing out when onboarding
For a new leader converging and evolving is generally the right approach to their own onboardign. Purely assimilating into a new organization is the easiest and safest approach over the…
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