Onboarding New Team Members
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Onboarding New Team Members
“I like to put together two documents right after I join:... See more
- A mind map of the domain: Inputs and outputs of the business equation. This helps the individual learn the space by dissecting it, but also gives a win to the team in terms of documentation. You can then easily pin existing projects to this map and plan for the future.
- A clear document about w
Kyle Poyar • How to Make an Impact in Your First 90 Days
Putting things on paper helps when new people join the team. It's not about being on the right room at the right time.
Range • Jori Lallo on Working Effectively Across Different Timezones
FAVI’s onboarding process ends on a nice touch. New teammates who have gone through all the training modules of the first two months are asked to write an open letter to the group of colleagues they have joined. There are no instructions on what the letter should be about, so new hires often dig deep in their selfhood to find something worthwhile t
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product
Putting yourself in the mind of someone who is coming to Slack for the first time — especially a real someone, who is being made to try this thing by their boss, who is already a bit hangry because they didn’t have time for breakfast, and who is anxious about finishing off a project before they take off for the long weekend — putting yourself in th... See more
Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Onboarding needs to be a celebration, not paperwork. It should create emotional connections between the new recruit and a maximum number of team members.
Verne Harnish • Scaling Up : How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
Awesome manual explaining how Big Spaceship makes decisions as a team and company.