Executive Onboarding News Today

Executive onboarding basics always apply, but differently for new CEOs and their magnified personal impact and influence and almost impossible time management challenges.

In an acquisition, pay the same level of attention to employee engagement and change management as you do to strategy, commerce, operations, finance, and governance .

Negotiate to secure win-win terms AND make people feel even better about working with you.

Don’t. You cannot help those lacking the confidence to be open to help. Instead, find another person or another way to help them or walk away.

Onboarding any new leader successfully requires aligning people around expectations and then acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating them.

In choosing a professional network, look for 1) shared interest, 2) diverse experience and perspectives, and 3) a culture of helping each other.

Each organization, level, industry, ownership model, geography has its own rules of the road. Reduce onboarding risk by hiring people who have traveled your road before.

Focus on what matters most and eliminate or minimize everything and everyone else

Remote work is here to stay. Align core values and focus. Continually ratchet up the current best you.

Make your inevitable early failures small and “intelligent”, as you ratchet up your current best thinking together with your new colleagues