Unable to organise a real Team Recruitment & Onboarding meeting, @ChrisM and I had a quick discussion this afternoon on how to approach the onboarding process for the people we will be meeting at the presentation tomorrow.
A key consideration to be made here is that we will need all the time and energy that we have to invest in the current FM group, both in making space to make important decisions together, and to have the necessary conversations about how we function as a group.
Given that we expect to have more clarity about the plans by mid-November (especially on the location of the available 3-bedroom apartments), our proposal is to postpone the Exploring Member phase until then, to save our energy for making our current group work. Nevertheless we do want to engage with the new people, so our proposal is to invite them to a couple of events until then.
These events can be defined as we go, but would include at least the following:
A site visit on 22/09
Two online Q&A sessions
NVC practice sessions
Social events
Once we have sufficient clarity and capacity, we will then contact everybody who filled in the survey, assign them a buddy, and launch the three week Exploration phase, for them to decide whehter they would like to become Associate Members.
I hope this lands with clarity. All questions, suggestions and concerns are very welcome.
I have a bit of a concern with this plan, because it means that none of all these people would have a chance to be part of the site-buying group in December, as they will be 1m in when we need to make the payment… Which means that we are not lowering our risk much…
I also have a friend who is interested, and that makes me uncomfortable to think that she won’t have a choice but to go with 4% if she decides to join (and if that’s what we decide…)
It might be a bit of a stretch to think that we will have people ready to become full members if we onboard them now, but at least we would be giving ourselves a chance.
I’m not necessarily thinking about it super clearly, and I’m not saying it’s definitely a bad idea, but I would quite like it if we had a chance to think about it together…
Just a thought, might be completely silly, please ignore me if it is (although just tell me !): I see that it seems possible to postpone signing the compromis, as it is what is happening now with the seller not being ready; could we maybe explain the situation to the landlord and ask for a delay? As a token of commitment , we could even make the payment of the option if that would be a legal option…
No, Sarah, posponing the signature does not change the picture unless there is a risk of the seller backing out of the deal. We still need to spend time with the architects to finalize the plan, price the units and move on.
For me the biggest risk we are facing now is getting a delay with the finalisation of the plan (which has an impact on the decision of the current Associate Members). Preserving our energy to keep the current group together is also a very important factor to me.
If your friend would like to join, I’m sure we’ll find a way to include her as soon as possible, as we always try to put values above rules. That should give her enough time to decide before December if she would like to.
What we did now - postponing the Exploration Phase - is reversible, so how about we take 15-20 minutes at the FM plenary tomorrow to talk about this then. Would that work?
After the last presentation, four households filled in the survey, knowing that the next round of onboarding would start in mid November.
Two other households sent emails shortly afterwards, received the presentation slides and are considered as part of this group.
Most of these households have met some Full Members at a brunch and/or attended an online Q&A session. The plan is still to restart the onboarding process at some point from mid-November, once we have clearer info about what we have to offer. Depending on which size apartments we still need to fill, we could also send a follow up email to the attendees of the last presentation, to offer a second chance of filling in the survey…
