The area of on-boarding and bringing new people into a team is an area fraught with difficulties and there is a
lot of research now showing just how challenging this is. There is some research that said 35% of new
executive failed within the first eighteen months of starting a new position in 2004. 35% is very high.
Considering the huge cost involved in finding people, training them and getting them going and then having
to do that all over again, it would be a worthwhile investment to get that number down dramatically. One
example already mentioned is the change in staff turnover data with a rate of 30% reduced to 11% in one
study.