Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization

CAPTURE THE ONBOARDING MARGIN WITH THE "4 PILLARS" OF SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING "Bringing a new employee on board can be the start of a rewarding relationship or the beginning of a missed opportunity. This smart book can teach you how to make the most of each employee's career starting on Day One." —Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND"This book has the potential to change the way that we think about new hires and what is possible from the group. With the instruction provided, you can migrate onboarding from the administrative to the strategic, and deliver far greater value for your enterprise." —Betty Thompson, Senior Vice President, People Services, Booz Allen Hamilton"People are a company's most important asset. Successful Onboarding makes the case for the importance of effective onboarding in setting up employees for success." —Stephen Squeri, Group President, Global Services and Chief Information Officer, American Express Company "Hiring employees is the biggest investment most organizations make. Understanding how to make sure that investment sticks is what onboarding is about, and Successful Onboarding shows you how to do it right." —Peter Cappelli, Director of the Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania; author of TALENT ON DEMANDFact: 1/3rd of all external hires are no longer with the organization after 2 years. What can you do about it? In a word: onboarding; although poorly understood, subject to narrow definitions, and with limited best practice understanding or management rigor. Consultants Mark Stein & Lilith Christiansen have worked with leading companies on it, and they've synthesized their work into a ready to use system.With Successful Onboarding, you can: Rewrite the employer-employee compact—to everyone's advantageReduce time-to-productivity—while increasing the level of productivity and retentionMake improvements at the systemic level—with gains realized with regularity * Enroll new hires in your company's strategic plan Successful Onboarding provides a business case, a systemic approach to the entire process, and instructive inside stories from Apple, Starbucks, Netflix, Microsoft, Baird, Bank of America, John Deere, and dozens of other industry leaders.“This is a terrific resource for anyone wanting to create an effective onboarding program.” —Mindy Moye, Ph.D., Manager Employee Engagement, John Deere “In Successful Onboarding Lilith and Mark demonstrate the financial impact that the onboarding process can have on your organization, and provides a roadmap for improving your return on investment. The book has already changed the way we think about onboarding in our organization.” —Andrew Blocher, Chief Financial Officer, Federal Realty Investment Trust“Goodbye old-school orientation and welcome to onboarding. A great reference to tailor your onboarding based on your culture and strategy. This book demonstrates how sound and creative onboarding can prevent a lot of voluntary

Mark A. Stein: With a finance education from the George Washington University School of Business in 1990, and subsequent professional service experience as a foundation, Mark entered the management consulting industry in 1995, and has since led hundreds of corporate strategy, investment analysis and organization development engagements for leading multi-national corporations. Mark speaks at Organization Development and onboarding conferences. He is married with three kids and lives in Bethesda, MD.Lilith Christiansen: Lilith has 15 years of organization development consulting experience with Kaiser Associates and Booz Allen Hamilton. Lilith has led numerous organizational improvement and employee programs redesign projects for clients in both public and private sectors. Lilith is a graduate of University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Lilith is married, has two children and lives in Arlington, VA.Visit the authors’ website for more information http://onboardingmargin.com.