PrimeGenesis Executive Onboarding

Ways to PREPARE before you recruit

• Canvas key stakeholders
• Have sourcing strategies
• Have acceptance strategies
• External recruiters meet key stakeholders
• Involve operating companies
• Position description
• Written culture statement
• ID roadblocks and derailers

Ways to REINFORCE MESSAGES while recruiting

• Strong employment brand
• Common language/messaging
• Transparency/common knowledge
• Exposure to multiple levels in the organization
• Defined metrics
• One message company wide

Ways to give a onboarding team members a HEAD START

• Glossary of terms
• Opportunities to ask right questions of right people
• ID who wants new hire to succeed/fail
• Use tools and give results right away (Meyers-Briggs...)
• Be inclusive "meet by hug"
• Keep people on all levels close
• By day 45 new hires are "vitamin or virus"
• Dramatic change takes up to 3 years

Ways to help onboarding team members DELIVER RESULTS

• Extend orientation time (don't overwhelm)
• Shadow/mentor
• Build relationships and empathy
• Have everyone start as the receptionist!
• Repot people in different operating units
• Assign buddies
• Assign tasks that lead to early wins
• Set goals
• Play back with line people in addition to HR