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New Member Onboarding聽to the Organizing Circle: WELCOME, NEW PERSON!

CWF Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Public Seen by 6

The Organizing Circle is seeking one new member soon. We want to welcome a new person into our circle. 馃槑馃馃槏.

CLARIFY: How can the current members make a new member feel welcome and competent to participate in the Circle? (This post is not about recruiting and selecting a new member.)

I feel hopeful that one of you has an onboarding process somewhere that we can copy or emulate. Below is my draft to get us started. ... And, I would prefer to work on this content in a Cloud document, such as NextCloud.com or Riseup.Net (or, if we must, Google Documents).... Where is our shared workspace for writing and editing together?

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馃尃 Welcome Packet (asynchronous) 馃尃  

  • Current board members and their contact information 

  • Bylaws, roles and responsibilities of the board members 

  • Past reports [There are none yet!]

  • Links to meeting minutes and key current discussions 

  • List of technologies and softwares, principles and practices

  • Criteria for success of the Organizing Circle (What might our success looks like?)

馃寣 Orientation 馃寣

Introduce new members and current members 

Inspiration: 

  • Why are you joining this board? Or, for current members: Why are you on this board? 

  • Who on the board feels seen and appreciated for what they do? 

  • What are the mission and values of Social.Coop? Do we share them? 

Provide a peer mentor on the board. 

Offer a training for using a particular technology 

Provide access to softwares, such as online permissions 

馃摚 Public Announcement 馃摚

Welcome the new member publicly by announcing them on Loomio and maybe on SocialCoop Announcement 

Update any location that has OC member biographies 

Add the new member鈥檚 name to the Wiki 

CWF

Caitlin Waddick, Finance Working Group for Social.Coop and Organizing Circle Thu 5 Dec 2024 10:19PM

@Eduardo Mercovich : In today's meeting, did you volunteer to work on our onboarding?

MOTIVATION:

How do we create an intentionally welcoming group so that the new person joins us easily, and we all feel good about working together? I want the new person to feel welcome to contribute, and I want us to feel open to the ideas and changes that the new person might suggest and bring to our group. We don't want current members to form a clique of people with whom a new person doesn't feel that they belong.