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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 importantworking 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.
Synopsis
Onboarding will show managers and HR professionals how to get their new employees up to speed in half the regular time, and how to enable and inspire new employees to deliver better results faster on the job. Onboarding ensures that new hires are able to be highly productive starting on day one and ready to hit the ground running. The core concepts of providing onboarding assistance are Accommodation, Assimilation and Acceleration.
This book: Helps employers bring new employees up to speed and productive in half the usual time. Reduces hiring or promoting risk and increases retention rates. Reveals PrimeGenesis' proven tools, techniques and tricks of the trade that enable managers to monitor, measure and keep their new employees' success on track. Identifies most prevalent landmines that derail new hires and ways to avoid those landmines. Provides an onboarding framework that can be consistently deployed in any organization (leading HR departments to use the book as part of a comprehensive onboarding program)
Synopsis
A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive—FAST"Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed quickly and efficiently. This book guides you through a process that enables you to recruit, orient, and enable your new employees to get the job done. Learn how to inspire and encourage your new employees to deliver better results faster.
George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut’s Onboarding helps ensure that your new employees are productive and efficient from day one. You’ll learn how to help them assimilate into your corporate culture and accelerate their learning.
- Onboarding is one of the hottest trends in business
- This is the first book about onboarding
- George Bradt is a leading speaker and consultant, and the author of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
For business leaders and managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the best from your new employees.
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Praise for Onboarding"A must-read for anyone bringing someone new into theirorganization—if they're serious about setting them up for success!Well organized, easy to understand and implement."
—Andy Kriz, Director, The Human Capital Institute
"This book shows you the MOST successful way to ensurenew recruits deliver for you. It's filled with practical tips.Why would you settle for anything less?"
—Robert Rigby-Hall, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, LexisNexis Group
"Onboarding provides the framework and tools to rapidlyembrace new employees and position them for success.A must-read for high-performing organizations."
—Tom Colligan, Vice Dean of Executive Education, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"This is an invaluable resource for anyone bringing newtalent into an organization. The up-front thinking and easy-to-usetools are key to making any external search a success."
—Alan Cork, Executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.
"PrimeGenesis has done it again. Their new book presents a completelydifferent and clearly better way to manage the whole process of recruiting,jump-starting, and managing new employees. Hard to imagine anyonereading this book and not deploying its tools. Don't even think about startingto recruit anyone else until you've read this book."
—Kenneth Beck, Chief Executive Officer, The CEO Connection
About the Author
George Bradt is founder and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the premier executive transitionconsultancy. He was previously anexecutive 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
PART I PREPARE FOR YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE’S SUCCESS BEFORE YOU START RECRUITING.
CHAPTER 1 Understand the Organization-Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive Summary.
CHAPTER 2 Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization.
2.1 Purpose and Priorities (Downloadable).
2.2 Onboarding Track Record (Downloadable).
2.3 Messages (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 3 Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders.
3.1 Total Onboarding Program Time Line (Downloadable).
3.2 Recruiting Brief (Downloadable).
PART II RECRUIT IN A WAY THAT REINFORCES YOUR MESSAGES.
CHAPTER 4 Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates.
4.1 Employment Brand (Downloadable).
4.2 Candidate Sourcing (Downloadable).
4.3 Candidate Tracking (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 5 Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding.
5.1 On-Site Interview Day Plan (Downloadable).
5.2 Interview Guide (Downloadable).
5.3 Interview Debrief (Downloadable).
5.4 Reference/Background Check (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 6 Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way.
6.1 Offer Closing Process (Downloadable).
PART III GIVE YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE A BIG HEAD START BEFORE DAY ONE.
CHAPTER 7 Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee.
7.1 Personal Onboarding Plan (Downloadable).
7.2 Onboarding Conversation Guide (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 8 Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success.
8.1 Announcement Cascade (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 9 Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One.
9.1 Accommodation Checklist (Downloadable).
PART IV ENABLE AND INSPIRE YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE TO DELIVER BETTER RESULTS FASTER.
CHAPTER 10 Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways.
10.1 Pseudonewcomer Audit (Downloadable).
10.2 New Employee as Valued Customer (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 11 Speed Development of Important Working Relationships.
11.1 Assimilation Checklist (Downloadable).
CHAPTER 12 Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through.
12.1 New Manager Assimilation (Downloadable).
12.2 Acceleration Checklist (Downloadable).
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX I Organization-Wide Transformation.
APPENDIX II Sourcing Candidates on the Web.
Notes.
Glossary.
References.
About the Guest Experts.
About the Authors.
Index.