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

Copyright © 2009 George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut. All rights reserved.

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

Author(s): George Bradt, Mary Vonnegut

Published Online: 29 NOV 2011 09:10AM EST

Print ISBN: 9780470485811

Online ISBN: 9781118256145

DOI: 10.1002/9781118256145

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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.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xi)

  2. Part I: Prepare for Your New Employee's Success Before You Start Recruiting

    1. Chapter 1

      Understand the Organization-Wide Benefits of a Total Onboarding Program: An Executive Summary (pages 1–16)

    2. Chapter 2

      Clarify Your Destination and Messages to the Candidate and the Organization (pages 17–28)

    3. Chapter 3

      Craft Your Time Line, Write a Recruiting Brief, and Align Your Stakeholders (pages 29–43)

  3. Part II: Recruit in A Way That Reinforces Your Messages

    1. Chapter 4

      Create a Powerful Slate of Potential Candidates (pages 45–68)

    2. Chapter 5

      Evaluate Candidates Against the Recruiting Brief While Pre-Selling and Pre-Boarding (pages 69–93)

    3. Chapter 6

      Make the Right Offer, and Close the Right Sale the Right Way (pages 95–109)

  4. Part III: Give Your New Employee A Big Head Start Before Day One

    1. Chapter 7

      Co-Create a Personal Onboarding Plan with Your New Employee (pages 111–127)

    2. Chapter 8

      Manage the Announcement to Set Your New Employee Up for Success (pages 129–142)

    3. Chapter 9

      Do What It Takes to Make Your New Employee Ready, Eager, and Able to Do Real Work on Day One (pages 143–158)

  5. Part IV: Enable and Inspire Your New Employee to Deliver Better Results Faster

    1. Chapter 10

      Make Positive First Impressions Both Ways (pages 159–178)

    2. Chapter 11

      Speed Development of Important Working Relationships (pages 179–200)

    3. Chapter 12

      Provide Resources, Support, and Follow-Through (pages 201–215)

  6. Part V: Appendices

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      Appendix I: Organization-Wide Transformation (pages 217–220)

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      Appendix II: Sourcing Candidates on the Web (pages 221–223)

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      Notes (pages 225–229)

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      Glossary (pages 231–233)

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      References (pages 235–236)

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      About the Guest Experts (pages 237–239)

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      About the Authors (page 241)

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      Index (pages 243–254)

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