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

George Bradt is founder and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the premier executive transitionconsultancy. He was previously anexecutive at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Disney, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power and Associates. He is also the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, from Wiley.

Mary Vonnegut is a Partner in PrimeGenesis. She was formerly president of a retail operation, senior vice president of marketing at Hanover Direct, and worked as a management consultant. She has launched new businesses, built marketing departments from the ground up, and crafted growth strategies.

Getting new employees up to speed is one of the toughest jobs hiring managers face. Failure can lead to unfilled needs, unhappy recruits, and, ultimately, the failure to meet vital business goals.

In Onboarding, top executive transition consultants George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut help you recruit great employees, orient them to your business culture and goals, and enable them to start contributing immediately. Even better, the Total Onboarding Program lets you get your new employees on track in half the normal time.

The Total Onboarding Program can dramatically improve the performance, fit, and readiness of every person who takes on a new role in your organization. As a result, onboarding helps build, sustain, and perpetuate high-performing teams and leads to sustained, organization-wide competitive advantage. With deliberate practice and the right tools, you'll succeed at every step of the onboarding process:

• Preparing for your new employee's success before you even start to recruit

• Finding a powerful slate of potential candidates

• Creating a personal onboarding plan with your new employee

• Making your new employee ready, eager, and able to do real work on day one

• Speeding the development of importantworking relationships

• Providing the right resources, support, and follow-through for new employees

Each chapter of Onboarding includes forms, checklists, and other tools to help you make your way through the entire onboarding process with efficiency and effectiveness. You'll have all the resources you need to eliminate hiring mistakes and bad fits, improve employee retention, and align new employees with key business strategies.

For business leaders and hiring managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the very best from every new employee.

Pt. I Prepare for Your New Employee's Success Before You Start Recruiting

Ch. 1 Understand the Organization - Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive Summary

Ch. 2 Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization

Ch. 3 Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders

Pt. II Recruit in a Way That Reinforces Your Messages

Ch. 4 Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates

Ch. 5 Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding

Ch. 6 Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way

Pt. III Give Your New Employee a Big Head Start Before Day One

Ch. 7 Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee

Ch. 8 Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success

Ch. 9 Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One

Pt. IV Enable and Inspire Your New Employee to Deliver Better Results Faster

Ch. 10 Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways

Ch. 11 Speed Development of Important Working Relationships

Ch. 12 Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through

App. I Organization-Wide Transformation

App. II Sourcing Candidates on the Web

Notes

Glossary

References

Index