Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan
Leading Through a Crisis – The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan [i] lays out a methodology for leaders and their teams to get done in 100-days what normally takes six to twelve months.  In a…

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Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams
Help jump-start Disaster Operations Teams

We are working with a major humanitarian aid organization on a pro-bono basis to think through how to put in place a program to jump-start their Disaster Operations Teams.  (Every…

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Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs
Fundamental Onboarding Beliefs

Purposeful integration is essential This is why it’s so important to get stakeholders aligned around the organization’s purpose, a Total Onboarding Program and recruiting brief before starting to recruit.  Get…

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Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans
Pivoting off Personal Onboarding Plans

The creation of a personal onboarding plan is one of the crucial pivot points of onboarding well.  The earlier this can be accomplished in the process the better.  The more…

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Contextual Onboarding
Contextual Onboarding

In many ways, all onboarding is contextual.  It's about acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating a new team member into the context of the organization.  PrimeGenesis' three core onboarding ideas must…

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Communication Blockages in Onboarding
Communication Blockages in Onboarding

I was in China last week where internet access to anything related to PrimeGenesis is completely blocked.  Couldn't use PrimeGenesis email.  Couldn't look at PrimeGenesis websites.  And, as I'm sure,…

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Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed
Onboarding the Bus-Move on People with All Due Speed

Few question the wisdom of Jim Collins’ prescription to “get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus.” …

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Team 100-Day Action Plans for the new year
Team 100-Day Action Plans for the new year

It’s not clear when onboarding stops and regular management begins.  Some would argue that it’s all about the first day, week, month, 90-days, 100-days, six months or longer.  Maybe. The…

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Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough
Your Onboarding Program is Not Good Enough

Currently spending a couple of days with a couple of my kids in China.  Every time I come over here I am struck by the palpable hunger in the air. …

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