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This week, Wayne talks onboarding with George Bradt, founder of executive onboarding consultancy, PrimeGenesis, and author of Onboarding: How to get your new employees up to speed in half the time.

It's a staggering fact that 40 per cent of new hires leave – either voluntarily or not - during their first 18 months. But why? As George explains, onboarding is the process of interviewing, hiring, orienting and successfully integrating new hires into the new organisation. But too often, people are hired to solve the wrong problem or hired in the wrong way.

Then there the fact that in most organisations, there are three distinct functions responsible for recruitment, orientation and onboarding and finally day-to-day line managers. These functions often operate in different ways, to different agendas and without any real co-operation.

As a result, few organisations manage the pieces of onboarding well and even fewer have a strategic, integrated and consistent approach incorporating both a total onboarding process and a personal onboarding plan.

The intro music to the Working Week is "The Warrior" by The EMP Project, used with permission of Blue Canoe Records.

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Show synopsis
"The Working Week" is a weekly digest of news, blogs, and opinion from the pages of www.management-issues.com. Each week, host Wayne Turmel leads a spirited discussion on matters important to business, management development and human resources and the things that have caught his - and his guests' - eyes.
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