A Road Map For Onboarding Managers

Few organizations have manager onboarding programs, but they are key to equipping managers with the tools they need to be successful from day one. In “A Road Map for Onboarding Managers,” Sharlyn Lauby details how proper onboarding prepares managers to start their role confident, engaged, and better able to serve as an employee coach and mentor—both of which are critical to an organization’s bottom line. This issue of TD at Work: · identifies why managers need their own onboarding program · outlines a step-by-step process for developing a manager onboarding program · offers a checklist for a new manager buddy program · provides a template for developing a new manager onboarding program.

Although organizations likely have management development programs, they typically take place when employees are identified as high potentials and promoted into management later or when they are promoted, fail, and are assigned management development. In “Orient Managers for Career Success,” Sharlyn Lauby explains why new manager orientation is critical for bridging the gap between when employees join management and when they receive development. She details: · management orientation and how it differs from other management development programs · why a manager-specific program is needed · ways to gain buy-in and support for these programs · how to design and evaluate successful programs.

The Successful Manager's Roadmap provides the reader with a practical path any manager, new or experienced, can take to build a higher performing team. Being an effective manager can be challenging as he or she faces difficult business goals while managing an often diverse workforce comprised of Millennials and Baby Boomers, different ethnicities, conflicting personalities and other differences. The success rates aren't encouraging. The Corporate Executive Board estimates that 60% of managers fail or underperform in their first two years. Contrary to this statistic, managers can be successful by building high performing teams. The author draws upon her experience in working with a number of managers at different companies including Hewlett-Packard. The common elements behind high performing teams are managers who lead those teams. They take intentional steps to build their teams and they achieve their business goals. She shares many of those learnings in this book.In the Successful Manager's Roadmap, the author tells the story of Jeremy, a new manager fighting to keep his company's largest customer while dealing with a dysfunctional team. He contends with issues many managers face including sub-par employee performance, poor communication, mistrust, finger pointing and unacceptable team results. Fortunately, he meets Josephine, a legendary manager who helps him develop his own leadership skills and improve the performance of his team in a short period of time. Through this fable, the reader will receive a simple framework to build a winning team including engaging employees, building commitment and delivering results. This takes the manager through the full performance cycle of his or her team, whether it's completion of a major project or a fiscal year. The reader also receives practical tools for common management tasks including giving feedback, hiring great employees and managing performance.Ultimately, this book is intended to help businesses achieve their goals through effective managers who lead their teams to success. Almost as important as the business results are the hard to measure improvements in employee and manager satisfaction in which everyone enjoys walking into work every day and joining their teammates to win.

Organizations today understand that superior talent can create competitive business advantage. Executives are working with human resource managers and talent professionals to significantly improve their organization's ability to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the talent needed to achieve the organization's strategies. Effective CEOs and senior leaders are realizing that strong talent resources are as critical to business success as financial resources. This book in the SIOP Professional Practice Series provides an up-to-date review and summary of current and leading-edge talent management practices in organizations. A comprehensive book, Strategy-Driven Talent Management brings together an outstanding group of leading practitioners who present state-of-the-art ideas, best practices, and guidance on how to recruit, select, assimilate, develop, and retain exceptional talent and integrate talent management efforts with organizational strategy. Written for human resource professionals, industrial-organizational psychologists, and corporate executives, this key resource is a clear must-read guide to the emerging field of strategic talent management. Strategy-Driven Talent Management shows how to build competitive advantage through an integrated and strategic talent management program summarizes what it takes to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the best talent for the strategic needs of an organization reviews critical issues such as managing talent in global organizations and measuring the effectiveness of talent management programs includes case examples and CEO interviews from leading-edge companies such as PepsiCo, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cargill, and Allstate, which reveal how each of these organizations drives talent management with their business strategies This essential must-have HR resource offers insight into the future of strategic talent management, an extensive annotated bibliography and suggestions for preparing the next generation of organizational leaders.

CAPTURE THE ONBOARDING MARGIN WITH THE "4 PILLARS" OF SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING "Bringing a new employee on board can be the start of a rewarding relationship or the beginning of a missed opportunity. This smart book can teach you how to make the most of each employee's career starting on Day One." —Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND "This book has the potential to change the way that we think about new hires and what is possible from the group. With the instruction provided, you can migrate onboarding from the administrative to the strategic, and deliver far greater value for your enterprise." —Betty Thompson, Senior Vice President, People Services, Booz Allen Hamilton "People are a company's most important asset. Successful Onboarding makes the case for the importance of effective onboarding in setting up employees for success." —Stephen Squeri, Group President, Global Services and Chief Information Officer, American Express Company "Hiring employees is the biggest investment most organizations make. Understanding how to make sure that investment sticks is what onboarding is about, and Successful Onboarding shows you how to do it right." —Peter Cappelli, Director of the Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania; author of TALENT ON DEMAND Fact: 1/3rd of all external hires are no longer with the organization after 2 years. What can you do about it? In a word: onboarding; although poorly understood, subject to narrow definitions, and with limited best practice understanding or management rigor. Consultants Mark Stein & Lilith Christiansen have worked with leading companies on it, and they've synthesized their work into a ready to use system. With Successful Onboarding, you can: Rewrite the employer-employee compact—to everyone's advantage Reduce time-to-productivity—while increasing the level of productivity and retention Make improvements at the systemic level—with gains realized with regularity * Enroll new hires in your company's strategic plan Successful Onboarding provides a business case, a systemic approach to the entire process, and instructive inside stories from Apple, Starbucks, Netflix, Microsoft, Baird, Bank of America, John Deere, and dozens of other industry leaders. “This is a terrific resource for anyone wanting to create an effective onboarding program.” —Mindy Moye, Ph.D., Manager Employee Engagement, John Deere “In Successful Onboarding Lilith and Mark demonstrate the financial impact that the onboarding process can have on your organization, and provides a roadmap for improving your return on investment. The book has already changed the way we think about onboarding in our organization.” —Andrew Blocher, Chief Financial Officer, Federal Realty Investment Trust “Goodbye old-school orientation and welcome to onboarding. A great reference to tailor your onboarding based on your culture and strategy. This book demonstrates how sound and creative onboarding can prevent a lot of voluntary off-boarding from high performing employees.” —Sonia Narang, Director, Leadership & Organization Development, Sony Pictures Entertainment “Every company leader who is serious about delivering results through people should read this book. Successful Onboarding not only gives a roadmap to successful hiring and retention, but also addresses the common pitfalls that lead to adjustment struggles, discouragement and skepticism from new hires. This book rings true to those of us who coach leaders in the onboarding transition.” —Kate Ebner, Co-Director, Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Program, Principal, The Nebo Company “This is an important book for business leaders who want to assure employee engagement from Day One! Practical and instructive, the book gives leaders everything required to plan and implement an onboarding strategy that provides maximum organizational benefits. Not only does the book convincingly build the business case for excellence in onboarding, the authors lay out in the clearest of terms a ‘recipe’ to assist practitioners to plan and implement a strategy that will contribute the results we are all looking for….engaged employees who choose to build a career in our organizations and contribute to organizational success in the long term! Well done, Mark and Lilith!” —Bonnie DuPont, Corporate Director; Former Group Vice President, Corporate Resources, Enbridge, Inc. “Successful Onboarding could easily be titled Maximizing Your ROI. If you adopt the authors’ perspective and follow the best practices they present, your organization will get the greatest possible return on its investment in new talent. Stein and Christiansen’s work will shift your focus from activities to results.” —Scott Eblin, Eecutive coach and author, THE NEXT LEVEL: WHAT INSIDERS KNOW ABOUT EXECUTIVE SUCCESS “An approach to transforming your organization’s onboarding process from a one-time transaction to a sustained and integrated employee experience that drives performance and engagement right out of the gate.” —Matt Motzkin, Director, Organizational Development, Disney-ABC Television Group “A comprehensive and highly practical guide to the critical—but underappreciated—practice of onboarding new employees. The authors make a convincing business case for strategic onboarding and then outline a step-by-step process for a positive and enduring outcome.” —Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service

'Manager Onboarding' will walk HR managers and business leaders through the process of creating a manager onboarding program. While onboarding has many touchpoints in a manager's career, this book is going to focus on the new hire or newly promoted phase. It is for HR and business leaders who are looking for a roadmap to designing a manager onboarding program.

Are you responsible for creating a leadership training program for your organization, but don’t know where to start? Do you already have experience in developing leadership training programs, but want to improve the efficacy of your current offering? Either way, Leaders – Start to Finish offers detailed, specific insight and instructions on how to develop highly effective leadership training programs that will produce engaged and authentic leaders in your organization. Within the framework of providing detailed, workable, real-world suggestions and examples for building or improving your leadership program, some of the specific topics covered in Leaders – Start to Finish include: developing authentic, engaged leaders closing the gap on generational leadership utilizing leadership competencies developing strategic and tactical plans planning for smooth, efficient succession developing human capital leading with integrity, values, intuition, and stronger ethics building stronger teams managing the talent cycle becoming an influential leader incorporating the “three P’s” – purpose, passion and performance – into your leadership training an overview of current leadership trends. With numerous case examples from the real world, as well as checklists, discussion questions, practical exercises, training tips, and more, Leaders – Start to Finish gives you everything you need to create a professional, effective, efficient leadership training program, whether you’re starting from scratch or are interested in improving your current training protocols.