Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
- 3h 21m
- George B. Bradt, Mary Vonnegut
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2009
Getting new employees up to speed is one of the toughest jobs hiring managers face. Failure can lead to unfilled needs, unhappy recruits, and, ultimately, the failure to meet vital business goals.
In Onboarding, top executive transition consultants George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut help you recruit great employees, orient them to your business culture and goals, and enable them to start contributing immediately. Even better, the Total Onboarding Program lets you get your new employees on track in half the normal time.
The Total Onboarding Program can dramatically improve the performance, fit, and readiness of every person who takes on a new role in your organization. As a result, onboarding helps build, sustain, and perpetuate high-performing teams and leads to sustained, organization-wide competitive advantage. With deliberate practice and the right tools, you'll succeed at every step of the onboarding process:
- Preparing for your new employee's success before you even start to recruit
- Finding a powerful slate of potential candidates
- Creating a personal onboarding plan with your new employee
- Making your new employee ready, eager, and able to do real work on day one
- Speeding the development of important working relationships
- Providing the right resources, support, and follow-through for new employees
Each chapter of Onboarding includes forms, checklists, and other tools to help you make your way through the entire onboarding process with efficiency and effectiveness. You'll have all the resources you need to eliminate hiring mistakes and bad fits, improve employee retention, and align new employees with key business strategies.
For business leaders and hiring managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the very best from every new employee.
About the Authors
George Bradt is founder and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the premier executive transition consultancy. He was previously an executive at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Disney, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power and Associates. He is also the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, from Wiley.
Mary Vonnegut is a Partner in PrimeGenesis. She was formerly president of a retail operation, senior vice president of marketing at Hanover Direct, and worked as a management consultant. She has launched new businesses, built marketing departments from the ground up, and crafted growth strategies.
In this Book
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Understand the Organization-Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program—An Executive Summary
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Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization
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Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders
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Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates
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Evaluate Candidates against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding
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Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way
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Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee
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Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee up for Success
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Do What it Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One
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Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways
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Speed Development of Important Working Relationships
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Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-through
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Notes
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Glossary
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References
