Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization 1st Edition

Loved this book. It could be used as textbook! Insightful and reality-based solutions to an enduring problem for retention and day 1 development.

If you're new to being in a position of leadership, a must have.

"Must Read" that won't get read. The first 50% of this work is dead-on, but after the foundation of what onboarding can and should be, it falls into a typical "consultant lecture" that takes a simple concept and complicates it into a 100 year project for anyone who wants to follow it. Like most business books today, it is written from and for Fortune 500 companies, missing the 75% of companies that make up our economy. I would love to see a 2.0 version of this, written for the small-medium size organization (under 500 people) who really NEED onboarding.

Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization is an excellent resource for building foundational knowledge and providing practical, coherent guidance in implementing an onboarding program. Our newly developed onboarding team has benefitted significantly from this book. We use it as our most referenced resource to shape our foundational knowledge of onboarding and to create training for hiring managers to acculturate new employees in our district.The personal tips from the authors are added bonuses of having the book. The book is an excellent read for human resource professionals at any level.

This book contains a very detailed discussion of onboarding, its importance, and the process behind it. It is a great introduction for someone new to the topic, and provokes the reader to think about the needs in their own organization.

I think this is a great read for any person or organization that is wanting to improve employee retention through onboarding programs. It details the statistics and ROI behind the research and is a book that was a bit ahead of its time in looking into the impacts of onboarding as a specific HR functionality.

New hires, regardless of qualifications and experience will be more productive if properly introduced to their new work environment. Too often it is assumed new hires only need some introduction to their specific job responsibilities. The book describes procedures for integrating new employees so they understand the "big picture" and are able to contribute sooner to the success of the operation and maintain a productive, winning attitude.

Formal onboarding is one of the best ways businesses can keep promises made during the hiring cycle and give new employees the greatest possible chance to succeed FROM DAY ONE. This book is the best I've seen on the topic to date. Well done!Emily Bennington,  Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job

This book is absolutely brilliant. Having just taken on a role responsible for onboarding, I didn't know where to turn for credible, practical and digestible information on the subject. You can see from my photo that I'm highlighting a great deal of the book for when I reach the end and begin creating our own onboarding programme.I have no hesitation in saying this book has given me the insight and confidence to approach what was initially a very scary task. Now I can't wait to get started.

The best book about onboarding

I have been reading for 2 weeks and I appreciate 1) language clarity 2) the authors are sharing their own development learning process about the subject. As if they are writing while they are learning. As any new firms "room of improvement" you will not find any perfect translation from blueprint to the "mise en place" of a program suitable for tour company, but a lot of stimolulus to think about on. Thumbs up