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Formal Internal Company Mentoring Programs

Organizations have found that formal mentoring programs have been of great benefit to both the company as a whole and the individual employee. Setting up a formal mentoring program does not need to be a significant amount of work and the value received from such a program has reaching impact and benefit throughout the organization. […]

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 […]

New Manager Training Program at a Financial Services Company: A Case Study

Background

XYZ Financial Services Company provides a variety of financial and life insurance services to their clients, who range from individuals to Fortune 1000 companies throughout the northeast United States. They have been in business for 15 years and during that time have grown to 75 employees. They are starting to expand the services they […]

Leveraging Human Networks to Accelerate Learning

Published by colleague Maya Townsend in Chief Learning Officer Magazine April 2009

Copyright © 2009 MediaTec Publishing Inc

To make the most of their learning initiatives, CLOs must understand the power of informal workplace networks and know how to leverage them to drive organizational change.

The executive team of a small, community-based West Coast […]