Tag: transition acceleration
The Big Os: Oregon, Ohio State, Operational Excellence And Onboarding
The overriding lesson from yesterday’s college football playoff semi-finals was the importance of implementation.
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The New Leader’s Playbook for Mergers and Acquisitions
While any leadership transition is challenging for some, the disruption surrounding an acquisition or merger (which is generally an acquisition by a different name) creates a challenges for everybody on…
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Destination-back succession planning
Living in the moment is often a freeing concept. Evolving from the current state is a way to move forward. But, if you want to increase your chances of achieving…
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The Leverage You Need
Much of onboarding is just common sense. There's very little you'll have to do to manage the process of going into a new job or role that you don't know…
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Leverage the Fuzzy Front End
At first, Nathaniel did not buy the concept that he should start before his “official” Day One. He wanted to take some time off so that he could show up at…
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Sequential vs. Iterative Onboarding
People that go through The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan approach to onboarding generally get to the end and comment something like "That was just common sense. But I really…
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Campaign for Change
"We keep doing the same thing over and over again with different labels. We shuffle the people. We launch new initiatives. Nothing sticks. It's frustrating." - Team Leader. Every change…
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Disruptive Onboarding
Onboarding is disruptive – by design. Sure, we talk a lot about the need for new leaders to assimilate into the organization, to adapt, to build relationships and the like. …
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Onboarding Progress
“…making progress in one’s work – even incremental progress – is more frequently associated with positive emotions and high motivation than any other workday event”. So says Teresa Amabile…
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