The Trial - Onboarding Template

A template for onboarding new crewmates into their trial period

This is a template with key lessons you need to learn as part of your onboarding process. We call this ‘The Trial’. At the end of the trial, you can ‘walk the plank’, which is like an exam. Passing this exam means you will be promoted (keelhauled) from a pirate to a sailor and become full part of the Sustainable Ships crew. Hence, the purpose of the Trial is to prepare you for the Exam and determine if there is a fit between you as a Pirate and Sustainable Ships.

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Mentor Responsibilities & Actions

Mentor is responsible to make sure Pirate operates in a safe environment and achieves full potential

1. Copy tasks for onboarding in Notion

2. Schedule onboarding session

3. Sign NDA and/or Contract

4. Add Pirate to Notion + show around

5. Add Pirate to Squarespace + show around

6. Add Pirate to Google Workspace + show around

7. Add Pirate to other tools required for working + show Tools stack for working

8. Make draft crewmember blog post (Take Role Template)

9. Discuss the achievement and length of contract at Sustainable Ships (Rule 9 - Everything comes to an end)

10. Discuss feedback on the foundation of Sustainable Ships (Why, How, What)

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Sustainable Ships’ Keel

The ‘keel of Sustainable Ships’ is our organization’s foundation. It is basically the Sustainable Ships Extended Version, plus the blogs and secret internal information backing it up. In it, we explain the why, how and what of Sustainable Ships. Read the extended version of Sustainable Ships first, then read the following blogs:

1. Cause - comment with your own vision

2. Non-Negotiables - tell us what is unclear

3. Plan - does it makes sense

4. Proof and validation - tell us what we don’t want to know

Provide feedback in these blogs using the comment section at the bottom of the blogs. These will be discussed to ensure you understand why we do things the way we do, and to ensure you can make type 2 decisions on your own. Writing down your comments will retain questions for future audiences and will serve to improve the blogs themselves.

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Pirate Responsibilities and Actions

The Pirate is responsible to set its own goal and ask for guidance from Mentor and know how we work

1. Make your Crew blog post (Take Role Template from mentor)

2. Write down the goal of your assignment in the blog post

3. Set milestones or targets for yourself (tangible and recurring reminders)

4. Note PalantirQs in your agenda

5. Perform the 16 personalities type test and note down your profile in Notion

6. Perform the DISC model test and note down your profile in Notion

7. Read the Notion, Excel, Grid,is, General and Squarespace tutorials and write down questions in comments

8. Read the Non-Negotiables and write down questions in comments

9. Perform a Premortem by yourself and your goal and share the results with mentor

10. Make sure Mentor is aware of what holds you back so you can achieve full potential

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Tutorials

These tutorials hold lessons on specific tasks within the organization, as well as tips for working with Excel, Squarespace and Grid. Contact your mentor to for clarifications or to learn more.

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