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Onboarding Programs for New Hires – Part 2

A Case Study (Part 2 of 2)

The first part of this post provided an overview of onboarding. This second part will focus on a case study of a global financial services company who developed and implemented an onboarding program for newly hired college graduates.

Global Financial Services Company Overview

A global financial services company […]

Onboarding Programs for New Hires – Part 1

(Part 1 of 2)

According to Wikipedia.com (in a definition taken from Onboarding: How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time, Authors: George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009): “Onboarding is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come from […]

How Do You Acquire Leadership Skills? (Part II)

In Part I of this post we discussed three options for developing leadership skills: job shadowing, reading books (self learning) and online resources/blogs/portals/newsletters. In this post we will cover 6 other options for developing new or enhancing current leadership skills, some are also considered self-learning options.

If you know of other options, or have […]

How Do You Acquire Leadership Skills? (Part I)

Leadership skills are a necessity – regardless of your role within the organization. And certainly they are a necessity if you are interested in moving up within your organization or in moving to another organization into a senior leadership role. Some people believe leaders are born with the skills necessary to be leaders and others […]

Poll Question: What are some methods you use to gain new skills and knowledge?

There are a variety of ways to increase your skills and knowledge – training classes are just one way. What are some ways that you use to increase your skills and knowledge? Are you more creative in how you go about learning new skills based on the need to save money or reduced training budgets […]