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

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Pub. Date: 2009-08-01
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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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