On-Boarding: How to Shorten Ramp-up Times for Employees

Please be my guest for a free webinar on Wednesday, August 17. That’s when I  will be conducting a complimentary, online seminar that teaches leaders how to help new employees (or existing ones) ramp-up more quickly for new roles within their organization.

 On-Boarding: How to Shorten Ramp-up Times for Employees

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, 12:00–1:00 p.m. Eastern Time

5:00–6:00 p.m. UK Time, 4:00–5:00 p.m. GMT

 Presenter: Madeleine Homan-Blanchard, Co-founder of Coaching Services, The Ken Blanchard Companies

Co-Creator: Blanchard Certified, an online leadership development system.

 On-boarding has traditionally been seen as an HR responsibility and it’s easy to let the company’s training department make sure that new employees get off on the right foot.  This is a good start, but research shows that when managers also get involved the process moves along that much faster.

 In this webinar, I  will share three strategies managers can use to get their people off to a fast start including:

1. Painting the Picture: Learn how to create a picture of what a good job looks like and how to monitor that your employee has “gotten” it.
2. Sharing your Leadership Point of View: Take the mystery out of what you expect by spelling out your beliefs and expectations.
3. Mapping Relationships: Help new employees understand how things really get done in your organization by drawing them a map of who is who, and what is what.

 Don’t miss this opportunity to take a more proactive approach to getting people up-to-speed quickly.

 To register for this complimentary event, click on this link:

http://www.webex.com/webinars/OnBoarding-How-to-Shorten-Rampup-Times-for-Employees

An Update on Goal Achievement

Last summer, I posted about finally achieving a goal I had pursued for  seven– count ‘em – seven summers.  The very difficult and elusive (for me) deep water start on the slalom ski.  For anyone who has learned to water-ski on two skis, the norm is to get up on two and then drop one.  When you are hanging out with real skiers this is untenably gauche and it became imperative that I master the ability to simply get up on one ski.  At the end of last summer I finally got it. 

So this summer the big question was – could I do it again?  Lo and behold, I popped right up and pretty much have been able to do it all summer.  I am still surprised to find myself up on the water in one piece!

But of course now that’s old news and there has to be a new goal.  Now I have to cut.  It isn’t enough just to go back and forth across the wake and have fun…no.  Cutting is when you hunker down, pull your own weight and shoot across the wake at god only knows what heinous speed so that when it comes time to turn back you are leaning so far in you practically touch the water.  My husband looks like a demi-god when he does this.  And he makes it look so fun. 

And I am writing about this to re-iterate how important it is to my quality of life to have a goal that has nothing to do with work, saving the world, the well being of my children or my own moral betterment.  It is just absurdly fun.

 Wish me luck.