Episode 68: Accelerate Executive Onboarding Success with George Bradt

This week, Mike speaks with guest George Bradt on achieving successful onboarding for executive positions. George offers a unique perspective on how to have an executive onboarded within the first 100 days on the job with a very small failure rate.

George Bradt is the chairman of Prime Genesis, an executive onboarding and transition acceleration group that gives new leaders and their teams the structure, leverage, and confidence that they need to deliver better results faster. George is also an author of multiple books, plays and musicals, and columnist for Forbes.

• Why proper onboarding is vital for all levels of an organization
• How onboarding is defined
• How executive onboarding is different from onboarding other members of an organization
• Why you need executive onboarding
• Why the failure rate within 18 months of key leaders who come into an organization is at 40%
• The 5 A’s of successful onboarding
• Why letting candidates do their due diligence and interview the company for a few days after they accept the job offer, but before they start their role
• Ways for new people to become acquainted with the company culture quickly

• “You define yourself in your transitions and bringing people onboard has just a lasting impact on their ability to influence and impact people in the organization and the rest of the organization.” —George Bradt
• “It’s getting people aligned around the position and ideally aligned around their onboarding platform so we know what we’re going to do and how we’re going to bring them in before we talk to anybody. That’s what we mean by align.” —George Bradt
• “You got to acquire people, it’s part of onboarding. You can’t be one thing when you’re acquiring somebody and then be something different.” —George Bradt
• “Put these new people on the big, hairy, complex projects that they are not going to understand, so they can learn. So they can meet people. They don’t have to contribute on their first project, but they can’t contribute on their second project until they’ve done the first project.” —George Bradt

• George’s LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgebradt/ 
• PrimeGenesis Website: https://www.primegenesis.com/ 
• George’s Forbes column: https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/?sh=367a690972aa 
• The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: https://www.amazon.com/New-Leaders-100-Day-Action-Plan/dp/1119223237/ 

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