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Onboarding that helps New & Old employees!

By Camille Smith / July 2, 2010

The interview process is complete. Expectations established and promises made by both parties. The contact signed. Next step: Welcome, Aboard! Onboarding is a process to acclimate a new employee into an organization so that the value they were hired to add to the company is successfully realized as rapidly and cost-effectively as possible. The traditional…

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Onboarding that helps New & Old employees!

By Camille Smith / July 2, 2010

The interview process is complete. Expectations established and promises made by both parties. The contact signed. Next step: Welcome, Aboard! Onboarding is a process to acclimate a new employee into an organization so that the value they were hired to add to the company is successfully realized as rapidly and cost-effectively as possible. The traditional…

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What is an Organization?

By Camille Smith / May 24, 2010

Remove people from headquarters and what do you have? Cubicles, no culture. We don’t mistake a vacant office for an organization, but we often misidentify what constitutes an organization and this thing called “culture”.  If we want to change our organization, it helps to know where it lives. Flashback: When Christopher Columbus and his crew…

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How Leaders Breathe Underwater

By Camille Smith / March 8, 2010

Many (many) summers ago, when I was in training to be a lifeguard on New York’s Lake George, the first principle I learned was how to safely approach a swimmer in distress. A safe approach included talking to them, letting them know I was there to help them, and giving them instructions. The second principle…

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