{"id":1243,"date":"2021-06-07T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:21:14","slug":"remote-on-boarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/remote-on-boarding\/","title":{"rendered":"REMOTE ON BOARDING"},"content":{"rendered":"

WELCOMING NEW BOARD MEMBERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

With 2021 Proxy\/AGM season winding down there are many new Board members who are on boarding virtually.<\/p>\n

What do we need to manage differently?<\/p>\n

The recommendation to use the\u00a0Guide to Board Orientation<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0ICD<\/a>\u00a0hasn\u2019t changed, however, a key part that is missing is the social interaction and relationship\/trust building that often comes with pre-Board meeting dinners, in-person Onboarding meetings and the informal interactions that happen during Board meetings\/AGMs.\u00a0 A related\u00a0white paper<\/a>\u00a0suggests a common approach is to have a pre-Board meeting video call with a purely social design with some built in \u2018ice-breakers\u2019.<\/p>\n

Recently the\u00a0Canadian Professional Sales Association<\/a>\u00a0had their Board Meeting\/AGM and the evening before we had a pre-Board meeting video call that was purely a social gathering for onboarding.\u00a0 This was a fun event that had a similar effect of a pre-Board meeting dinner.\u00a0 Many boards also have a buddy system where new board members buddy up with current board members.\u00a0 This can also continue albeit virtually.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRemote Work Is The Future of Work\u201d \u2013\u00a0Alexis Ohanian<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is Remote Work Here To Stay?<\/p>\n

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel of the pandemic with active cases dropping and vaccination rates increasing.\u00a0 So, do we just go back to the old ways in-person?\u00a0 My impressions are that for Boards and many other organizations that a hybrid model will likely prevail.\u00a0 With the prevalence of video conferencing, some Board members may opt for video conferencing even when travel and in-person meetings are possible.\u00a0 Reasons can include cost, convenience, scheduling and possibly health concerns for those that have compromised immune systems.<\/p>\n

So, virtual on boarding of new Board members is likely here to stay at some level.\u00a0 The biggest missing piece is the social interaction and relationship\/trust building.\u00a0 Creative video conference events designed to fill this gap and Board buddies can help.\u00a0 While welcome letters and warm welcome comments were already important, they are especially important when on boarding is done remotely.<\/p>\n

Richard is a Board Director of the Canadian Professional Sales Association and as Board Secretary recently updated the onboarding approach for 2 new Board members who joined during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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WELCOMING NEW BOARD MEMBERS With 2021 Proxy\/AGM season winding down there are many new Board members who are on boarding virtually. What do we need to manage differently? The recommendation to use the\u00a0Guide to Board Orientation\u00a0from the\u00a0ICD\u00a0hasn\u2019t changed, however, a key part that is missing is the social interaction and relationship\/trust building that often comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elite-minds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}