Team Practices Group/Onboarding

These are the various onboarding tasks for everyone involved in onboarding new hires to the Team Practices Group.

Manager tasks

 * Mail out welcome to the team email
 * Mail out welcome email announcement
 * Establish expectations about logistics (work hours, location, etc)
 * Add new hire to staff page
 * Add new hire to team page
 * Schedule regular 1:1s with new hire
 * Review remote meeting set up
 * Review org structure and how the TPG relates to other teams
 * Ensure new hire is on relevant team meeting invites
 * Review health check survey process
 * Discuss nuances of working in our transparent, community-oriented environment
 * Establish expectations around engagement with teams new hire will be supporting
 * Review new hire tasks with new hire
 * Discuss what's appropriate for public vs private communication in our environment (err on the side of public)
 * Review the notion of 'assume good faith'

Onboarding buddy tasks

 * Review TPG team docs, mission, values, and regular meetings
 * Review different tools in use for what, set up with relevant accounts (wikis, Phabricator, hangouts, IRC & relevant channels)
 * Review pertinent mailing lists, help new hire subscribe
 * Show new hire how to set up user pages
 * Discuss nuances of working in our transparent, community-oriented environment
 * Review staff/contractors page
 * Review the notion of 'assume good faith'

New hire tasks

 * Welcome email announcement draft
 * Add contact info to officewiki contact list
 * Review HR's onboarding docs
 * Set up user pages
 * Set annual goals