Foundations

What We Mean...

Onboarding = an intentionally differentiated and phased approach that builds a new team member’s capacities to

1) pinpoint and describe their unique strengths and best selves,

2) engage with and understand your organizational culture – its whys and hows – and its people,

3) effectively know and be able to do what their position requires,

4) feel included and able to actively and effectively participate in your organization’s culture,

5) extract significant benefits from your organization's learning & development program.

Onboarding begins with recruitment and continues for as long as necessary to support organizational integration. Onboarding is differentiated and focused on new hire identities, professional relationships, knowledge, skill, dispositions, and your organizational culture – its diverse ways of knowing, doing, and being. Effective onboarding results in improved sense of individual and collective efficacy; positive, trusting professional relationships; and, an inclusive and equitable organizational culture that demonstrates how it values diverse individuals who contribute to organizational success. Onboarding responsibilities are shared among leaders who are committed to a new hire's success.

Professional Coaching = a goals-focused, inquiry-driven, and evidence-guided professional relationship designed to support another person’s professional identity, learning and development, and success. Effective coaching relies on a shared willingness to participate in the coaching relationship, highly skilled coaches, mutual acceptance of diverse personal and professional identities, clear outcomes and processes, as well as trust and confidentiality. It is refined through continuous improvement processes. Effective coaching results in at least

1) a professional's sense of supported growth toward efficacy,

2) sustained trusting professional relationships, and

3) an inclusive, supportive, and equitable organizational culture.

Supervisory Coaching and Servant Leadership = a goals-focused, inquiry-driven, evidence-guided, and empathic leadership approach. Using goal-specific data and professional coaching language, supervisory coaching through servant leadership supports understanding of performance expectations, ways to meet then exceed expectations, and a culture of professional care for others' success.