Tag: onboarding
BRAVE Onboarding
When moving into that first-time leadership role, get a head start, manage your message, build your team.
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For Leaders: Why Getting Too Comfortable is the Path to Discomfort
When onboarding into a new leadership role, it’s essential to converge into the organization before you can help it evolve, earning the right to lead before you try to lead.…
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How Salesforce And Deloitte Tackle Employee Engagement With Gamification
This is about encouraging BRAVE behaviors. For each employee, figure out what behaviors have the most impact. Make sure those employees know what is expected and have the tools, resources…
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Promoting From Within: Onboarding Risks For Wal-Mart’s Next CEO
Three main onboarding risks: Fit: Mismatch between personal preferences and the organization’s BRAVE culture – Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment. With poor fit, the organization rejects the new member. Delivery: Failure to deliver…
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Where Should A New CEO Focus First?
The basics of 1) owning the vision, 2) investing in the right people, and 3) fueling the most important efforts by others are always necessary – and never sufficient. The…
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Be the Somebody That Steps Up and Helps
Don’t let colleagues go into a new job unprepared. It’s not quite the same as letting them jump into shark infested water without warning them. But it’s close.
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Three Guidelines for Intel’s New CEO
This is Brian Krzanich’s moment as Intel’s new CEO. It was planned, seen and known. One can only hope he has managed the prelude well and can take advantage of…
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How to Turn Rejection into a Job Offer
Thoughts for the candidate: Do great work all the time Manage rejections with care Invest in your own onboarding Thoughts for the hiring manager: Keep your options open Leverage interim…
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Best Advice for New JCPenney CEO: Sell Quickly
It’s time for JCPenney to follow K-Mart into oblivion. As one retail expert explained to me, JCPenney was “A place Middle America went to for underwear.” Guess what? These days…
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