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Trust III – Building Trust on an Ongoing Basis
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an ongoing basis. This piece, part III of the Trust Trilogy looks at...
Trust II – Building Trust During Your First 100-Days
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an ongoing basis. This piece, part II of the Trust Trilogy looks at...
Trust I – Building Trust Before Onboarding
Relationships are based on trust. Trust builds over time. This is why it’s so important to do things that build trust before onboarding, during your first 100-days, and on an ongoing basis. This piece, part I of the Trust Trilogy looks at...
Onboarding into a Soap Opera
TV Soap Operas Most television series devolve into soap operas over time. As explained in that source of all true knowledge, Wikipedia, “most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place”. ...
Crisis Management: Be Do Say
Good article by Peter S. Goodman in the New York Times (8/22/10) on “In Case of Emergency: What Not to Do”. He looks at how British Petroleum, Toyota, and Goldman Sachs handled or mishandled their recent PR debacles. On the one hand, he points...
Gustavus Smith’s Onboarding
This is a true story of one of the worst onboarding cases in history as told by Wharton Professor Michael Useem. May 31, 1862. The Union forces were about to overrun the Confederate capital, Richmond. Confederate President Jeff Davis went out to the front...
Onboarding Politics
Eleven jurors thought former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was guilty of several mis-deeds including trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. One juror held out because she thought it was just political talk, "Politicians talking to politicians"...
Fitting in and standing out when onboarding
For a new leader converging and evolving is generally the right approach to their own onboardign. Purely assimilating into a new organization is the easiest and safest approach over the short term, but has no impact. Shocking the system has the most...
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 how to do. The issue is how much of it you have to do and how little time you have to do it...
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 his new job rested and relaxed. Further, he felt uncomfortable asking for meetings...