The First 90-Days: Goal-oriented Onboarding

Being onboarded into a nonprofit isn’t always pleasant. Usually it means a gauntlet of briefings, a pile of forms, a bunch of reading. And lunch.

If the onboarding was unpleasant but useful, then you could consider it a necessary evil. But all too often, it fails the utility test as well. How could providing so much information not be useful? When it’s not in service of accomplishing clear objectives. The path to better onboarding starts by asking what you are hoping for the new employee to accomplish through it.

OnboardingGary Gold-MoritzJanuary 7, 2020Comment

Onboarding in Five Dimensions

What explains our chronic failure to effectively onboard nonprofit leaders? Surveys persistently show high levels of ED dissatisfaction with their onboarding processes.* The conventional answer is that Boards of Directors are to blame for failing in their responsibility for onboarding new leaders. This is both true and entirely beside the point.

Onboarding, LeadershipGary Gold-MoritzOctober 19, 2018Comment

Onboarding Your New Staff Leader - How to Identify the Best Approach

Congratulations! You’ve just hired your next staff leader. Now it’s time to think about the onboarding. The first few months of the new leader’s tenure will be the cornerstone of both the successes and challenges of the years ahead. Thoughtful decisions now about what approach to onboarding makes the most sense will have implications far down the road.

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