👤 Onboarding Buddy: New PO
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Role Keepers | Christoph Burkhalter |
Purpose
This role serves as the temporary, primary supporting go-to person for the new VSHNeer during onboarding, plans and tracks role- or team-specific onboarding objectives, and provides guidance and feedback.
Accountabilities (Key Responsibilities)
Assist with role-/team-specific technical setup
Ensure that role- (and team-)specific onboarding objectives and measurable key results are defined
Track role- (and team-)specific onboarding progress
Be available at short notice for questions and assistance for the new VSHNeer
Ensure role-specific education
Provide feedback on onboarding progress
Stakeholders and Key Deliverables
- New VSHNeer
Close assistance with getting started during the first day and first week (usually in the office).
Primary go-to person.
Provide situational direction and connect them with relevant people for topics the Buddy cannot answer.
Critical constructive feedback on progress.
Collaborative planning of measures, initiatives, and tasks to achieve onboarding objectives.
- People Role
Feedback on role-specific onboarding (usually during bi-weekly check-ins).
Planning of role-specific onboarding and tracking of objectives.
Dependencies
- People
The overall onboarding program being established and owned, including the planning of check-ins.
Assistance in tricky personal situations or with other impediments that go beyond the team’s scope.
- Corporate IT
Working and pre-configured VSHN tooling accounts, access, etc.
Working and pre-configured personal notebook (for non-technical VSHNeers - engineers configure them themselves).
- People Operations
The administrative onboarding process is handled, and everything possible is ready by the first working day.