Tag: onboarding best practices
The Working Girl Question
Oren Trask was CEO of media conglomerate, Trask industries. He was particularly gifted in choosing great people. Behavioral interviews are useful...to a point. It's essential to separate out people who…
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Masks are for Halloween, not onboarding
Making a genuine connection with others on either side of onboarding can only happen if you take off your mask. We all wear different masks at different times. Sometimes they…
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Onboarding into the center ring (avoid the side show)
Side shows are designed to be seductive. They are often brighter, bolder, and more garrish than the main show. They try to make up for lack of substance with superior…
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Conversation ACES: Assimilate, Converge & Evolve, Shock
Managing conversations during onboarding and beyond Before you engage in any conversation with anyone, know why. That why will help you determine whether you're better off assimilating into their thinking,…
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Onboarding best practices: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Simon Mann
Tom Harper reports in Friday's Daily Mail that Equatorial Guinea's president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has hired Simon Mann as a security advisor. What's extraordinary about this is that Simon…
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The importance of resiliency
Last evening over dinner, psychologist Dr. Julia Hawgood suggested a one word explanation for the difference between those that are able to recover from a misfortune like losing a job…
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Ann Mulcahy on succession management
Ann Mulcahy and Ursula Burns have set a high bar for how to manage a CEO succession well. As Ann describes it in this month's Harvard Business Review, it took…
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Creating Time While Onboarding
How can managers create more time? They can’t. All they can do is reallocate it. While individuals are limited to reallocating their own time, managers have more leverage because they…
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Dealing with the unexpected
Not content with its contributions to the global banking crisis, the powers that be in Iceland decided to wreck havoc on Europe’s travelers last week by flooding the air with…
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