Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time

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Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time Pub. Date: 9/8/2009 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470485811
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 450,149
Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet 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.

Pt. I Prepare for Your New Employee's Success Before You Start Recruiting

Ch. 1 Understand the Organization - Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive Summary

Ch. 2 Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization

Ch. 3 Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders

Pt. II Recruit in a Way That Reinforces Your Messages

Ch. 4 Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates

Ch. 5 Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding

Ch. 6 Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way

Pt. III Give Your New Employee a Big Head Start Before Day One

Ch. 7 Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee

Ch. 8 Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success

Ch. 9 Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One

Pt. IV Enable and Inspire Your New Employee to Deliver Better Results Faster

Ch. 10 Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways

Ch. 11 Speed Development of Important Working Relationships

Ch. 12 Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through

App. I Organization-Wide Transformation

App. II Sourcing Candidates on the Web

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

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Posted September 24, 2010

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Good tools and techniques to onboard new employees

Many new hires do not last longer than six months. One out of two new employees fails to meet the organization's expectations. Why? Often, employers make little or no effort to acclimate these staffers to the job. Thus, their employees start off on the wrong foot, and many find it hard to "change course." However, George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut deliver a proven program you can use to help new workers become immediately productive. Bradt, founder and director of the executive-transition consultancy PrimeGenesis, and Vonnegut, a partner at the firm, bring considerable experience to the topic. getAbstract recommends their book's thoughtful approach to onboarding. Though the guide is poorly structured in parts, it provides easy-to-follow, practical advice for bringing people on board and keeping them there.
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