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Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time Hardcover – 18 Sept. 2009

by George B. Bradt (Author), Mary Vonnegut (Author)
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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.

  • Onboarding is one of the hottest trends in business
  • This is the first book about onboarding
  • George Bradt is a leading speaker and consultant, and the author of The New Leader’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.

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    0470485817
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0470485811
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Wiley
  5. Publication date
    18 Sept. 2009
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    16 x 2.54 x 22.61 cm
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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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.

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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 important working 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.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (18 Sept. 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470485817
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470485811
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16 x 2.54 x 22.61 cm
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George B. Bradt

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George Bradt has led the revolution in how people start new jobs - accelerating transitions so leaders and their teams reduce their rates of failure and fulfill potential. After Harvard and Wharton (MBA), he progressed through sales, marketing, and general management roles around the world at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power’s Power Information Network spin-off as chief executive. Now he is Chairman of PrimeGenesis, author of ten books on onboarding and leadership, two books on back-to-school chats, 700+ columns for Forbes, and eighteen plays and musicals (book, lyrics & music).

George and his wife Meg live in Stamford, Connecticut. They moved there from New York City the long way - via Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and California. Their three children and their spouses, fiancees and boyfriends drop by from time to time between their own various travels to try to soak up more back-to-school chats.

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Robert Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars To the best of my knowledge, there is no better single source for expert guidance on onboarding.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2011
As George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut explain in the first chapter of this book, onboarding "is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization. The prerequisite to successful onboarding is getting your organization aligned around the need and the role." Frankly, until reading this book, I was almost wholly preoccupied with successfully getting a new hire or a new promotion "on board" and to "flank speed" as swiftly and as easily as possible." I gave little (if any) thought to the inevitable adjustments that new associates would have to make. Well, as Bradt and Vonnegut soon make crystal clear, there is a lot more to onboarding than getting someone on board.

They carefully organize their material within four Parts that correspond with the four major phases of the onboarding process: Preparation, Recruitment, Orientation, and what I would characterize as Expedition or Acceleration. Within these each four Parts, Bradt and several sub-processeses as they explain "How to." For example, in Parts I and II:

o Ensure that everyone understands is needed and how it will be obtained
o Clarify and communicate key information
o Craft a time line, formulate a recruiting brief, and enlist stakeholders
o Create a slate of highly-qualified candidates
o Evaluate while pre-selling and during pre-boarding
o "Make the right offer, and close the right sale the right way"

Readers will be delighted to learn that the purchase of this book enables them to access 21 downloadable documents that include templates, briefs, timelines, sourcing and tracking documents, interview/ debrief/reference check guides, and personal as well as onboarding game plans with schedules.

Here in a single volume is just about as much information, wisdom, and counsel that leaders in almost any kind of organization will need during "the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization." As indicated previously, Bradt and Vonnegut make every effort to serve the best interests of both candidates and the new hire or new promotion as well as those of an organization. To the best of my knowledge, there is no better single source for expert guidance on onboarding.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2009
For anyone who is involved in the hiring of senior management, this is required reading. It well written, well organised and absolutely to the point about all the issues that you need to consider to ensure the success of the new manager's entry into the organisation.
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Rolf Dobelli
3.0 out of 5 stars Good tools and techniques to onboard new employees
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2010
Many new hires do not last longer than six months. One out of two new employees fails to meet the organization's expectations. Why? Often, employers make little or no effort to acclimate these staffers to the job. Thus, their employees start off on the wrong foot, and many find it hard to "change course." However, George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut deliver a proven program you can use to help new workers become immediately productive. Bradt, founder and director of the executive-transition consultancy PrimeGenesis, and Vonnegut, a partner at the firm, bring considerable experience to the topic. getAbstract recommends their book's thoughtful approach to onboarding. Though the guide is poorly structured in parts, it provides easy-to-follow, practical advice for bringing people on board and keeping them there.
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John G. Self
5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Book on a Mission-Critical Subject: Onboarding
Reviewed in the United States on 17 October 2009
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"George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut's Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time" is one of the most helpful, how-to books that I have read in years. Absent are the catchy platitudes that characterize so many books written by consultants. This book is chock full of information in the form of a clear road map that will help you understand that a Total Onboarding Program (TOP) is a mission-critical program for every organization.

"I am recommending it as a must-read manual for healthcare executives who want to succeed in an increasingly challenging climate.

"If you are an executive recruiter, and you are not up to speed on TOP, you are missing an important opportunity to take your performance to the next level."
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Carla
4.0 out of 5 stars good topic
Reviewed in the United States on 26 November 2010
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I wish the company that hired me had such a book to share with it's supervisors so that they could have used the great examples of how to bring somone on board effectively and smoothly.
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H. Kangis
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Page
Reviewed in the United States on 14 November 2009
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So many business books are long on theory but short on practice. This book hits directly those critical things that organizations and the managers themselves need to do to start being productive and deliver results right away in a new job. How many of us have started jobs where somebody points to the desk (assuming there even is one ready when you arrive) and says "let me know if you have any questions." Companies can and desperately need to do better, and this book is the place to start.
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Spicy Tofu
2.0 out of 5 stars Basic introduction only
Reviewed in the United States on 5 October 2013
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This is a good book for small and medium businesses and average performing Fortune 500 companies that need some basic guidance on on-boarding. What do I mean by basic? It highlight things like having your new employee's desk ready or make sure that you properly announce the employee to the company. For more high-performing cultures, there is nothing new or strategic in this book and there are better books out there.

Its intended audience is also a bit unclear. I think it was written primarily for hiring managers, but unless you are a small or medium business (proprietor), I really can't imagine any hiring manager ever reading this book. But if the intended audience was for HR managers, then this is just way too basic.
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EchoPoppa607
1.0 out of 5 stars This book has the wrong title.
Reviewed in the United States on 25 June 2021
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This book should be titled "how to recruit managers and supervisors, and what to do the first day." because that's what it's about. There is nothing in it about onboarding. It's about orientation day, and it is not for a cohort of hires en mass, but instead for individuals with singular jobs in supervisory or leadership positions. It's awful and not at all what it claims to be.
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