Tag: onboarding
Perspicuous Onboarding
We had a blizzard in Connecticut on Boxing Day (December 26). The traffic advisory read "Do NOT drive. If you must drive make sure you have a winter survival kit…
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Warm Onboarding Beats Cold Starts
Cold openings surprise, engage, and sometimes shock people. Very effective for Saturday Night Live. Great way to start a speech, toast or talk. Effective way to send a message to…
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Publish your opening hours during onboarding
I know it's old school, but I decided to go to an actual store this morning to buy a Christmas present. Busy day, so I decided to get there early. …
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Choose Optimistic Onboarding
None of us can control everything. But we can choose how we react to events. Choosing optimism and its associated hopefulness and confidence can be infectuous. Organizations marked by hopefulness…
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It’s not worth the effort even to try to get managers to care about onboarding
They just don't care about another "HR" process. But they do care about delivering results. So, focus your efforts there, with onboarding as a tool. I learned the ABCs of…
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Duck a la Onboarding
We all know how ducks look calm on the surface while paddling like mad underneath the water. That is exactly the approach you should take to onboarding - and perhaps…
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The Only 3 Interview Questions
Any question you've ever asked in any interview or been asked in any interview is a subset of one of three questions getting at strengths, motivation and fit. 1. Can…
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"Speak only if you can improve upon the silence."
In a world in which we're all attacked by an ever-growing cacophony of sights, sounds, smells, beeps, creeps and sleep-depriving tweets, silence is increasingly golden. (Of course, this is from…
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Culture and Character: Intersecting Pieces of the Onboarding Puzzle
An organization's culture is the sum total of the characters of the individuals in the organization. The addition of any single individual impacts the culture and the culture impacts the…
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