The Total Onboarding Program An Integrated Approach to Recruiting, Hiring, and Accelerating Talent Facilitators Guide Set

by Bradt, George B.; Bancroft, Ed

• ISBN13: 9780470552285
• ISBN10: 047055228X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Onboarding?the recruiting, hiring, and acceleration of talent?ensures that new hires are able to hit the ground running and be highly productive starting on "day one." The Total Onboarding Program provides training and HR professionals with a detailed approach for bringing new and recently promoted employees up to speed and productive in half the usual time. In this Facilitator's Guide set, George Bradt?author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan?and Ed Bancroft share a complete training package of proven tools, techniques, and "tricks of the trade" that help organizations reduce hiring or promoting risk and increase retention rates, identify and avoid the most prevalent landmines that derail new hires, and develop an onboarding framework that can be consistently deployed in any organization.

Author Biography

George Bradt (MBA, Wharton) (Stamford, CT) is the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (Wiley, 2006), and the Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the world's leading executive "onboarding" consultancy. After his education at Harvard and Wharton, George progressed through sales, marketing and general management roles at Fortune 500 companies around the world, including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power and Associates. He founded PrimeGenesis in 2002 (www.primegenesis.com).

Ed Bancroft is a PrimeGenesis Partner who specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, and performance management. His consulting experience includes clients in health care, telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, distribution and energy. These clients ranged from 50 to 50,000 employee organizations. For the past five years, he served on the faculty of World at Work, teaching the performance management certification program. Ed published articles on the aging workforce, performance ownership, 360 degree feedback and severance strategies.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: THE TOTAL ONBOARDING PROGRAM

SECTION 2: PRE - LAUNCH MEETING FACILITATOR GUIDE

SECTION 3: PREPARE THE ORGANIZATION

SECTION 4: CONTINUOUSLY RECRUIT

SECTION 5: GET A BIG HEAD START

SECTION 6: ENABLE AND INSPIRE GOOD PRACTICE