You have been hired as an external consultant, and your client, Green Box Financial, is a large financial services employer with a performance-driven organizational culture. The organization has invested a significant amount of time and money in innovative recruitment practices to attract the brightest employees to their Canadian offices in Calgary, AB; Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON; and Victoria, BC. Their recruitment efforts have been successful; however, their retention has proven to be an issue.

You have met with many of the management team and have concluded that Green Box Financial does not provide a very good socialization program. Additionally, you received feedback from exit surveys from new hires who left the company that indicate that the job was not what they expected to be.

In addition, Green Box Financial has just hired a new Chief of Strategy, Marc, who has just begun the new job. As a result of a formal socialization program, Marc is not sure what he can do on his own to improve his chances of a successful socialization.

Propose a socialization program for Green Box Financial and help them understand what a successful socialization program looks like. In relation to Marc, what would you tell him to do, and how effective would it be for his socialization?