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 this webcast, top executive transition consultant George Bradt will 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, with some key takeaways:

George Bradt has a unique perspective on helping leaders accelerate transitions based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience. After his education at Harvard and Wharton, George progressed through sales, marketing and general management roles around the world at Fortune 500 companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and then J.D. Power and Associates as chief executive of its Power Information Network spin off. Now he is Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the executive onboarding and transition acceleration group he founded in 2002. Since then, PrimeGenesis has been able to reduce the risk of failure fourfold for executives they have worked with - from 40% to 10% through a single-minded focus on driving them and their teams to deliver better results faster over their first 100-days.George is the author of: The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (Wiley, 2006 and 2009), Onboarding: How to get your new employees up to speed in half the time (Wiley, Aug. 2009), Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Fathers to their Sons (Durban House, 2006)
Great webinar! We are rolling out an on-boarding program in June and are including everything from sending forms before day 1 to making Day 1 interactive, providing lunch, CEO welcome, welcome gifts and a new hire passport. With all that said, what is the number one thing we need to be sure we have nailed down?