George Selix
As Senior Director, Worldwide Employee Learning and Development at Sun Microsystems, George Selix lead a cross-disciplinary world-wide learning and talent development team responsible for Onboarding and new hire program development. While at Sun, he was in charge of building an interactive learning environment that taps into learning, books, videos, blogs, and third-party resources.
Welcome to a special Inside Recruiting Channel edition of Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. When George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut set out to write Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time , they invited a select group of experts to share their knowledge in the onboarding process. In this special series here on Total Picture Radio, we'll be interviewing, in depth, the individuals chosen by the authors to contribute their experience, expertise, and perspective.
George Selix is Consultant and Principal Human Research Development Researcher at Mile High Research, LLC. He is Nationally recognized for solving complex human performance problems for companies with a large footprint and diverse workforce. George contributed to Chaper 9 of Onboarding; Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able.
The Experts Series -- Onboarding is sponsored by PrimeGenesis. Founded in 2002, PrimeGenesis' mission is singular: use executive onboarding and facilitated transition acceleration to help new leaders and their teams deliver sustainable, Better Results Faster. Based in Stamford, Ct. PrimeGenesis is led by senior operating executives and organizational development specialists with deep and varied business experience.
Questions
- George, while you were at Sun Microsystems, you were building an interactive learning environment - can you share with us some of your objectives for this initiative?
- Expand on the bullet points in the book.
- Can you talk to us about enculturation?
- Given your experience working with global corporations like Sun and BofA, what have you learned about the importance of onboarding?
- What would you like to add that we've not discussed?
About George Selix
Prior to Mile High Research, George was Senior Director, Worldwide Employee Learning and Development at Sun Microsystems, where he Lead a cross-disciplinary world-wide learning and talent development team responsible for Onboarding and new hire program development, Professional development, Sales, services, and marketing training, and Leadership and Executive Development. He contributed to chapter nine of Onboarding, Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able.
About Peter Clayton
Peter Clayton, Producer/Host, is an award-winning producer/director of radio, television, documentary, video, interactive and Web-based media who has created breakthrough media for a wide array of Fortune 100 clients.
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