Executive OnBoarding

E&W offer a systematic approach to executive onboarding, designed to accelerate a leader’s transition to a new position, group, or organization. Its goal is to maximize productivity of newly hired leaders, accelerate cultural assimilation and increase executive retention.

Our services cover both program needs assessment and design, and program implementation.
We typically partner with HR to assess the company’s onboarding needs, with the purpose of strengthening the existing OnBoarding program or establishing a new one. The program is designed as an integral part of the company’s talent management process, and customized to the company’s unique needs.

We support individual leaders in building and executing a transition plan over their first 90 days in their new role. For this we provide transition and planning tools and implementation processes, as well as leadership transition coaching.

In providing OnBoarding services we draw on our extensive organizational development, change management and leadership coaching experience. We augment our coaching services with well qualified affiliates as needed.

Examples of OnBoarding services:

• Provide customized Transition Management Planning Guide to help leaders establish priorities, understand organization and business, establish relationships with boss, peers, and direct reports, and identify key stakeholders, etc.
• Design customized management handover process and planning/monitoring tools to identify critical activities and information required for successful transition.
• Provide guidelines for initial and subsequent engagement meetings with boss, peers and direct reports to clarify roles and expectations and build productive relationships.
• Customize process to assess the executive’s team members’ individual and collective strengths, challenges and development needs; guides development of team charter; designs and facilitates team building within and across teams.
• Provide confidential setting for leaders to help clarify the personal and organizational issues they face in getting up to speed in their new role.
  Assess effectiveness of OnBoarding activities with the leaders with recommendations for follow up.