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

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Author: George B. Bradt

ISBN-10: 0470485817

ISBN-13: 9780470485811

Category: Employees - Hiring & Firing

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.

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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 recruitFinding a powerful slate of potential candidatesCreating a personal onboarding plan with your new employeeMaking your new employee ready, eager, and able to do real work on day oneSpeeding the development of importantworking relationshipsProviding 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.

Pt. I Prepare for Your New Employee's Success Before You Start RecruitingCh. 1 Understand the Organization - Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive SummaryCh. 2 Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the OrganizationCh. 3 Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your StakeholdersPt. II Recruit in a Way That Reinforces Your MessagesCh. 4 Create a Powerful Slate of Potential CandidatesCh. 5 Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-BoardingCh. 6 Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right WayPt. III Give Your New Employee a Big Head Start Before Day OneCh. 7 Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New EmployeeCh. 8 Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for SuccessCh. 9 Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day OnePt. IV Enable and Inspire Your New Employee to Deliver Better Results FasterCh. 10 Make Positive First Impressions Both WaysCh. 11 Speed Development of Important Working RelationshipsCh. 12 Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-ThroughApp. I Organization-Wide TransformationApp. II Sourcing Candidates on the WebNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex