Onboarding into a any organization and team often has hurdles. Onboarding into a fully remote, asynchronous-first organization can present particular challenges. Often times, LinkORB new team members benefit from a recurring, asynchronous stand-up with their team lead or a senior team member when they first join.
Similar to the weekly status update and recurring asynchronous check-in processes, LinkORB follows a lightweight šstand-up process to support new team members.
Most commonly a team lead or senior team member will intitiate the stand-up process with a Cyans topic titled [Stand-up] team-member. For example, [Stand-up] msmith.
For the message body, something similar to the below is suggested:
Hi msmith - welcome again, we are excited youāve joined the team!
Hereās our stand-up topic. The idea is for you to kick-off your day with a short message in this topic specifying:
- Cool achievement(s) of yesterday
- Goals for today
- Anything currently blocking or where help is needed
I will track this topic and help you wherever I can.
Our current focus is:
- Help you get the hang of our workflow and applying it to the [enter project here].
- Help close tasks efficiently by raising issues early (you) and ensuring requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting resources are clear (me).
As you get more comfortable working within the team, we may choose to reduce the frequency of our stand-ups.
You can read more about the process here.
Each working day the new team member should send a message into the topic addressing the 3 requested items.