Continuity Books: The Military's Secret to Seamless Role Transitions and How to use it to Get New People Productive Faster

About this episode

This episode explores Continuity Books and their effectiveness in facilitating seamless role transitions in organizations, particularly in the military.

We're diving into Continuity Books, what Continuity Books are, why the U.S. military swears by them, what the research says about why continuity books work, and 3 protocols to use them so the next person stepping into a role hits the ground running and gets productive from day one. STUDY CITATIONS Bauer, T.N., Bodner, T., Erdogan, B., Truxillo, D.M., & Tucker, J.S. (2007). Newcomer adjustment during organizational socialization: A meta-analytic review of antecedents, outcomes, and methods...

People in this episode

Host: Brandon White

Topics covered

• Continuity Books
• military role transitions
• productivity
• organizational socialization
• protocols for onboarding

Keywords

• Continuity Books
• military
• role transitions
• productivity
• onboarding
• organizational socialization
• protocols

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. military

Books & works: Continuity Books

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