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USE ONBOARDING TO PROTECT YOUR HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT



Onboarding is an essential component to a succesful search process. Based on our work with our clients, we have identified several common challenges that cause executives to derail at new companies or in new roles in their existing organizations. These common derailers include:

Jumping the Gun: New leaders often charge in too fast, and assume everything is “broken” instead of identifying small, quick wins to build positive momentum.

Leader Arrogance: Some newly placed leaders don’t take the time to understand their new organization, and pay respect to its history and successes.

Building Relationships: Many new executives do not invest proactively in building relationships with key stakeholders at every level.

Leadership Style: New leaders may not adapt their leadership style to fit their new team and organizational culture.

Clarity of Expectations: New leaders often misread and misjudge the dynamics, expectations and requirements of their new organization and role.

Cultural Misalignment: Many new leaders don’t invest the time to learn about the organization’s culture, systems and political landscape and are unable to make an impact.

The costs to the business are substantial, from direct replacement costs of 200-250% of annual compensation for executive positions to less quantifiable costs related to business opportunity loss and poor morale. Experts suggest the true cost of a mis-hire can be as much as 15 times annual compensation of the mis-placed candidate.

Developed to accelerate the adjustment of new leaders in significant new roles, the process combines the benefits of executive coaching with assessment, structured feedback and facilitated meetings with key stakeholders. The process helps focus the new leader’s attention on the key areas that need to be mastered and managed effectively in order to integrate successfully: tangible business results.

Executive OnBoarding Coaching builds a platform for new leaders to:
  • Accelerate organizational learning and knowledge transfer by focusing the leader on critical, high impact objectives necessary for success
  • Build and leverage relationships and networks with key stakeholders in order to gain the support necessary to achieve goals
  • Receive constructive assessments feedback and coaching on leadership style, strengths and development needs to address potential derailers and support success in their new role
  • Build a six-month roadmap that identifies opportunities to deliver early results, and outlines clear goals and ways to achieve them to increase the leader’s ability to make a positive impact on the organization’s performance


Who Should Participate?

Executive OnBoarding Coaching has proven to be particularly valuable when:
  • A new executive from outside the organization assumes a key leadership position
  • An expatriate begins a new leadership assignment
  • A technical expert assumes a broader leadership role
  • The new leader’s department poses immediate challenges
  • The executive is filling a newly created position


How is our OnBoarding process different?

What sets our work apart is our thorough approach. We don’t just work with individuals - we start with making them aware of the values, principles and climate of the organization of which they are part. Our Onboarding Coaching methodology is anchored by our metrically driven rigor which quickly creates the capacity for appreciative and supportive interaction that leads to the achievement of desired business results. For years, most organizational pundits have known that it is not how much you know but how well you relate to other people both inside and outside the organization that really matters. Utilizing the underlying frame work of Emotional Competency – the ability to understand yourself and therefore self manage, the ability to understand others and therefore manage relationships – Strategy Focused coaching has the capacity to improve productivity adaptability and increased competence and efficiency across any organization. This leads to improved bottom line results.

Reduce your organization’s transition risk and protect your investment in your executive search team with our Executive OnBoarding Coaching support. As an integral component to our search process your recruitment costs support more than just the identification of a succesful candidate -- you've also invested in your new leader’s transition. Engaging The 2HC Group is a sound business investment.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information and an assessment of your current needs.
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