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Tamara Erickson: Onboarding 4 Generations

Monday, 23 November 2009

Tammy Erickson: Onboarding Across Four Generations of Cohorts. Forget the Cookie Cutter

Tammy Erickson

"When Gen Y'ers were in their most formative years - 11 to 16, we were a world obsessed with terrorism. The adult conversations, the evening news, were around Columbine and 9/11. Events that were inexplicable and random. So a lot of the conceptual model that has been developed in Gen Y is one of random events. And if you think logically, how would you live your life if you had a random mental model?" — Tammy Erickson

Welcome to a special Inside Recruiting Channel edition of TotalPicture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. The Onboarding Experts Series 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.

Tamara J. Erickson is both a respected, McKinsey Award-winning author and popular and engaging storyteller. Her compelling views of the future are based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations work. Well-grounded and academically rigorous, fundamentally optimistic, Tammy’s work discerns and describes interesting trends in our future and provides actionable counsel to help both organizations and individuals prepare today. Tammy Contributed to chapter 11 of Onboarding titled; "Speed development of Important Working Relationships"

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Onboarding Experts Series: Jean Brown

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Connect, Inspire, Persuade: Onboarding a New Employee for Success

Jean T. Brown partner, McKenzie Brown LLC, NYC

Jean Brown

"Great communicators connect, inspire, and persuade. To connect, you must engage your audience in the message. You should inspire confidence. And you have to persuade your listneres to take action. Successful communication demands that your craft a clear, concise, persuasive message and deliver it effectively. Both components matter." Jean Brown, Onboarding, p 133.

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 (affiliate link to Amazon.com), 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.

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.

Communications expert Jean Brown, partner with New York City based MacKenzie Brown, LLC works with senior executives, managers, and partners of many Fortune 500 companies and law firms. Jean contributed to chapter 8 of Onboarding, titled "Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee up for Success."

New -- The complete interview transcript with Jean is now online!

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Executive Onboarding - George Bradt

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Part 2: Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time.

As a hiring manager, are you bringing a new executive into your organization to fill a position that had internal candidates vying for the job? Have a listen to George Bradt's advice in part two of our onboarding feature podcast.

George Bradt

Welcome to Part 2 of our special Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. George Bradt is founder and managing director of PrimeGenesis a firm focused on senior executive onboarding.

Prior to founding PrimeGenesis, George served as chief executive of J.D. Power and Associates’ Power Information Network spin off and in general management, marketing and sales at Coca-Cola in Europe and Asia, Procter & Gamble and Lever Brothers. George is the co-author, with his Primegenesis partner, Mary Vonnegut of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results - and their latest book, for hiring managers, is titled; Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time. (Link to Amazon.com)

Onboarding "is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization. The prerequisite to successful onboarding is getting your organization aligned around the need and the role."

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Onboarding Expert Series: David Lee

Thursday, 19 November 2009

David Lee On the Emotional Side

"If your new employee is not, in your heart of hearts, unequivocally, absolutely your right hire, stop; do not pass Go; rescind the offer. Or find some way to make the individual you chose absolutely the right hire for some modified role. A hiring manager's certainty and commitment is requisite to successful employee onboarding." Onboarding, p. 175

David Lee

David Lee is the founder of Human Nature At Work. He is an internationally recognized authority on organizational and managerial practices that optimize employee performance. David has written extensively about the emotional side of onboarding. He preaches the importance new leaders feeling welcomed, comfortable, secure, proud, excited, inspired, and confident. David contributed to chapter 10 of Onboarding, titled Make Positive Impressions.

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Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Bill Epifanio - Onboarding: Make the Right Offer, and Closing the Right Sale

Bill Epifanio

"There's always a talent war for A players, most of whom are happily and successfully employed. One of the real challenges and primary added values of executive search consultants is our ability to encourage totally uninterested, passive candidates to consider new opportunities. Every placement I've made over the past several years started with a conversation with someone who assured me they were very happy with their current position and not at all interested in the job I was presenting." - Bill Epifanio

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.

This is the fifth Guest Expert podcast in the series. Bill Epifanio contributed to Chapter 6 of Onboarding: titled Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates

Please Note: We've tried to schedule the interviews in this series sequentially, as presented in the book. Because of scheduling conflicts, that will not always be possible.

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