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Onboarding
How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
George B. Bradt (Author), Mary Vonnegut (Author)
9780470485811, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 September 2009
272 pages
22.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.476 kg
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 Vonnegut’s Onboarding helps ensure that your new employees are productive and efficient from day one. You’ll learn how to help them assimilate into your corporate culture and accelerate their learning. For business leaders and managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the best from your new employees.
Acknowledgments xi Part I Prepare for Your New Employee’s Success Before You Start Recruiting Chapter 1 Understand the Organization-Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive Summary 3 Chapter 2 Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization 17 Forms and Tools 2.1 Purpose and Priorities (Downloadable), 21 2.2 Onboarding Track Record (Downloadable), 23 2.3 Messages (Downloadable), 26 Chapter 3 Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders 29 Forms and Tools 3.1 Total Onboarding Program Time Line (Downloadable), 30 3.2 Recruiting Brief (Downloadable), 38 Part II Recruit in a Way That Reinforces Your Messages Chapter 4 Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates 47 Forms and Tools 4.1 Employment Brand (Downloadable), 52 4.2 Candidate Sourcing (Downloadable), 66 4.3 Candidate Tracking (Downloadable), 67 Chapter 5 Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding 69 Forms and Tools 5.1 On-Site Interview Day Plan (Downloadable), 74 5.2 Interview Guide (Downloadable), 81 5.3 Interview Debrief (Downloadable), 87 5.4 Reference/Background Check (Downloadable), 90 Chapter 6 Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way 95 Forms and Tools 6.1 Offer Closing Process (Downloadable), 99 Part III Give Your New Employee a Big Head Start Before Day One Chapter 7 Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee 113 Forms and Tools 7.1 Personal Onboarding Plan (Downloadable), 117 7.2 Onboarding Conversation Guide (Downloadable), 125 Chapter 8 Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success 129 Forms and Tools 8.1 Announcement Cascade (Downloadable), 138 Chapter 9 Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One 143 Forms and Tools 9.1 Accommodation Checklist (Downloadable), 145 Part IV Enable and Inspire Your New Employee To Deliver Better Results Faster Chapter 10 Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways 161 Forms and Tools 10.1 Pseudonewcomer Audit (Downloadable), 168 10.2 New Employee as Valued Customer (Downloadable), 171 Chapter 11 Speed Development of Important Working Relationships 179 Forms and Tools 11.1 Assimilation Checklist (Downloadable), 186 Chapter 12 Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through 201 Forms and Tools 12.1 New Manager Assimilation (Downloadable), 203 12.2 Acceleration Checklist (Downloadable), 204 Appendices Appendix I Organization-Wide Transformation 217 Appendix II Sourcing Candidates on the Web 221 Notes 225 Glossary 231 References 235 About the Guest Experts 237 About the Authors 241 Index 243
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
