The standard flow for bringing a new leader onto the MDplus team. Targeting 30 days from accepted offer to full autonomy.
Day 0 — Offer accepted
- Send welcome email with first-week schedule
- Add to leadership Slack channels (
#leadership-general,#leadership-ops) - Add to the leadership Google Group (
leadership@mdplus.community) - Create or invite GitHub account to the org if they’ll be touching code
Week 1 — Orientation
- 1:1 with Executive Director
- 1:1 with Chief of Staff
- Read this entire wiki end-to-end (~45 minutes)
- Read the 501(c)3 charter
- Shadow one community lead Slack channel
Week 2 — Embedding
- Sit in on the leadership weekly sync
- Pick one ongoing project to co-own
- Add yourself to the Leadership roster
Week 3 — First contribution
- Publish a Slack intro in
#announcements - Take ownership of an SOP — either write one or refresh one
- First proposal or memo to the leadership team
Week 4 — Full autonomy
- Final check-in with Executive Director
- Onboarding retrospective — what worked, what didn’t
- Update this page with anything that was unclear
Pair them with an onboarding buddy
Every new leader is assigned a buddy from the existing leadership team. The buddy is the ‘dumb question’ channel — first stop for anything the new leader doesn’t want to ask in a group setting.