Tag: onboarding
ONBOARDING INTO THE COMMUNITY
Henry Mintzberg has some interesting thoughts in the July-August 2009 Harvard Business Review on “Rebuilding Companies as Communities”. He suggests that “Middle managers, who see the connections between operations and…
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In Praise of Milestones
Dominique was 60 days into onboarding into a new job and had asked for progress updates from her direct reports. She was told things were going fine. While she hoped…
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Preparation – Delivery – Follow Through
Successful onboarding requires preparation, delivery and follow through on everyones part. But then again, this is true of most meaningful endeavors. PREPARATION The fundamental messages out of both our books…
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Aspiration and Invitation
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. At this week's Cornerstone International Group conference, Kevin Turner…
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ID Covert Detractors
When you onboard into a new role, or any time you try to change things, your efforts will have supporters, watcher, and detractors. The most dangerous are the covert detractors. …
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Onboarding Strategic, Organizational and Operational Processes
PrimeGenesis partner Rob Gregory has a rare way of reducing complexity to a couple of pieces of common sense that most can understand. He was the first to make me…
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Impact Over Action – Lessons from Obama and the Fly
There are some lessons to be learned from Obama and the fly. Just to make sure everyone is on the same page, Obama was in an interview when he got…
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Inspire and Enable: From 3E to 5E Onboarding
Procter & Gamble recently switched from driving 3E leadership to 5E leadership. At a very high level, 3E leadership is Envision, Engage and Execute. 5E adds Energize/Inspire and Enable to…
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Team 100-Day Action Plans for onboarding or re-starts
Inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose is the never-ending job of a leader. Because everything is always changing…
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