Tag: onboarding
Can you do the job? Strengths
There are only three questions in a job interview, getting at strengths, motivation, and fit. See The Only Three Interview Questions, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan or the companion…
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Can we tolerate working with you? Fit.
There are only three questions in a job interview, getting at strengths, motivation, and fit. See The Only Three Job Interview Questions, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan or the…
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Video of full New Leader's Playbook Presentation
I gave a presentation to the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group last month - March 22nd, 2011 to be exact. They did a video recording of the whole session which…
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Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss and Onboarding
Adam Bryant's latest piece in The New York Times on Google's Quest to Build a Better Boss is well worth reading. It goes into detail on what Google has found…
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Finding Your Voice is an Essential Leadership Skill
"The King's Speech" won best picture last night. Marvelous. Seeing that movie got me thinking about how important it is for leaders to find their voice. Turns out others have…
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Leverage Your Agenda as a Symbol of What’s Important when Onboarding
Edgar was joining a company as CEO. He told us the most important thing he had to do was to change the mindset of the organization to become more customer…
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The New Leader’s Playbook
Moving into new roles are crucible events of leadership and some of the toughest challenges people face. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. In that…
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International Executive Transitions
The nice thing about switching countries is that no one (including you) expects you to know anything. You are completely, certifiably, consciously incompetent. Don’t laugh. It’s a privileged state that…
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Initiating Changes to the Company Culture in the Onboarding Process
In the vast majority of cases, converging and evolving are the right leadership skills to apply to transition management when onboarding. (Please see my earlier post, "Onboarding Context and Culture".)…
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