Tag: onboarding
Managing Onboarding Risks
Risk is the possibility of suffering a harmful event. Recently, we’ve all seen that managing risk is not the same as ignoring it or avoiding it, and that even managed…
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Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
I was struck by Simon Sinek's TED video on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. (Those of you who are not familiar with the TED videos should stop reading right now…
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Judo Onboarding
Judo onboarding is the art of adapting well to changing circumstances and using someone else’s momentum to further your aims as you onboard into a new job. There are three…
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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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Give Up
Most acknowledge the value of focusing efforts on what’s most important. Yet few of those same people are prepared to decrease their efforts on other things. The math doesn’t work. …
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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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Onboarding Step-by-Step
One important onboarding best practice is to pay attention. When I was 14 years old, I had lunch with the headmaster of the Eton school in England. After a glass…
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Competence, Confidence, and Caring in Onboarding
"...there are three things that matter. The first is competence — just being good at what you do, whatever it is, and focusing on the job you have, not on…
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Onboarding Results – Process Tradeoff
The world is full of people so focused on process that they forget about results. They think that if they do everything right, good things will happen. It's also full…
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