The Talent Management Specialists at Blueline Simulations sweep the Brandon Hall Awards Yesterday I enjoyed a little taste of what James Cameron must have felt the night that Titanic swept the Oscars. Ok, so this may sound overly dramatic, if you will forgive the pun. Billy Crystal wasn’t hosting, and there was no red...
Forgive us if we come across like proud parents passing around pictures of our kids. But the onboarding program we developed for Booz Allen is getting a lot of attention and…. Well, gosh, you can’t blame us for wanting to share the good news with friends like you. Specifically, Blueline Simulations has received the...
We’ve shared with you in recent posts about our overall work with onboarding and specifically our onboarding work with our client partners at Booz Allen Hamilton. In this post we want to disclose the results of our combined efforts there and the tools that we are utilizing in our current and future work in...
If you recall in a previous post we shared the “secret sauce” that distinguishes the onboarding experiences Blueline creates for its clients. Now let’s look at how the four elements we identified amount to a “quadfecta” and form an award-winning onboarding program for Booz Allen Hamilton. 1. Context – Blueline created two immersive classroom-based...
Remember your first day on the job, on your first job, all those years ago? I do. I remember awkward introductions. (“If you need anything at all…” “Hook ‘em horns!”) I remember paperwork. SO much paperwork. And I remember pulling up a chair in my undecorated closet-office and going straight to work. And that...
Salespeople know they should listen more than they talk and if you ask them, they can rapidly list the steps in your selling process. Yet when they are in front of a client they almost always talk too much and fail to execute properly on the steps in your selling process. Recent neuroscience research...
In a previous blog, I described how we created an award winning onboarding experience for the legendary consulting firm: Booz Allen Hamilton. And in the one prior to that, I outlined our secret recipe. (If you missed that blog you may want to take a look now, because I’m going to showcase new ways...
Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the world’s most legendary consulting firms. More than a century old, the Virginia-based firm is credited with inventing the field of management consulting. The firm engaged Blueline Simulations to help redesign its onboarding program, and to implement the four program elements I described in my blog a few...
