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

by George B. Bradt; Mary Vonnegut

• ISBN13: 9780470524909
• ISBN10: 0470524901
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive-FAST "Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed quickly and efficiently. This book guides you through a process that enables you to recruit, orient, and enable your new employees to get the job done. Learn how to inspire and encourage your new employees to deliver better results faster. George Bradt and Mary Vonnegutrs"s Onboarding helps ensure that your new employees are productive and efficient from day one. Yours"ll learn how to help them assimilate into your corporate culture and accelerate their learning. bull; Onboarding is one of the hottest trends in business bull; This is the first book about onboarding bull; George Bradt is a leading speaker and consultant, and the author of The New Leaderrs"s 100-Day Action Plan For business leaders and managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the best from your new employees.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prepare For Your New Employees Success Before You Start Recruiting

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

Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization

Purpose and Priorities (Downloadable)

Onboarding Track Record (Downloadable)

Messages (Downloadable)

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

Total Onboarding Program Time Line (Downloadable)

Recruiting Brief (Downloadable)

Recruit In A Way That Reinforces Your Messages

Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates

Employment Brand (Downloadable)

Candidate Sourcing (Downloadable)

Candidate Tracking (Downloadable)

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

On-Site Interview Day Plan (Downloadable)

Interview Guide (Downloadable)

Interview Debrief (Downloadable)

Reference/Background Check (Downloadable)

Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way

Offer Closing Process (Downloadable)

Give Your New Employee A Big Head Start Before Day One

Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee

Personal Onboarding Plan (Downloadable)

Onboarding Conversation Guide (Downloadable)

Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success

Announcement Cascade (Downloadable)

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

Accommodation Checklist (Downloadable)

Enable And Inspire Your New Employee To Deliver Better Results Faster

Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways

Pseudonewcomer Audit (Downloadable)

New Employee as Valued Customer (Downloadable)

Speed Development of Important Working Relationships

Assimilation Checklist (Downloadable)

Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through

New Manager Assimilation (Downloadable)

Acceleration Checklist (Downloadable)

Appendices

Organization-Wide Transformation

Sourcing Candidates on the Web

Notes

Glossary

References

About the Guest Experts

About the Authors

Index

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