There’s a problem inherent in the onboarding of new leaders into an organization.
Is Bad Onboarding Stifling Your New Senior Leaders?
You hired them for a fresh perspective. Don’t force them to conform to the status quo.
October 04, 2022
Summary.
Onboarding is traditionally an exercise in orienting new employees to the status quo: the existing people, rules, culture, norms, processes, procedures, and behaviors that they will need to be successful in their new job. But leaders today are brought into organizations to create change. The typical orientation process can stifle the new leader’s innovative spirit. To set up a new leader to create change, build their onboarding process around a specific near-term challenge, customize it around a particular question, or ask them to regularly report critical observations of what they learn to a group of stakeholders.