Onboarding template for new leaders
Creating a SupporterBase onboarding process for your captains and vice-captains will help set them up to succeed as volunteer leaders.
This is true of distributed organising more broadly, where it is important that volunteer leaders are not only provided with the autonomy and flexibility to organise their own local groups, but are also working from a common set of core values, communications principles and ethical standards. It is also important volunteer leaders understand the various organising options available to them, their pros and cons, and their specific organisation’s strategic and tactical preferences, so they are empowered to apply these methods in their own personal way, in their own local context.
That’s why we have developed the template linked below, which we hope will give you a headstart in crafting your own onboarding processes for volunteer leaders using SupporterBase.
Get the onboarding template here. Your organisation will need to clone that google document to create your own version, customised to suit your specific goals and guidelines.
This onboarding template consolidates all of the support articles captains and vice-captains will need to use SupporterBase, grouped by organising tactic, and accompanied by tips we have picked up over years of working with leading progressive campaigners on distributed organising. We have also provided an overview of some ethical, regulatory and financial issues your organisation might like to address when providing volunteer leaders with access to SupporterBase.
You will see some key sections of the onboarding template are highlighted orange to indicate that they should be edited to suit your organisation before you share your own version with volunteers.
Let us know if you have any questions - you can get in touch directly by writing to info@supporterbase.com. We would love to see how you shape the onboarding template to suit your needs, so if you're happy to share the final version with our team then please do send us a copy.
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