Team Recruitment & Onboarding: general communication 2025

Hi Ugne,

The screenshot you are showing looks like the backstage, when you are logged in. What I was referring to is the list of ads that visitors of the websites see. There I found one for 23/04 and one for 12/09.

Maybe the 29/04 was not published?

An another thing for @ugne 's attention: Lee created a Meetup group “Cohousing in Brussels”:

As of now, it has 23 members. Not sure we will continue with it, but as long as it’s there it should be on the to-do list of @reef-recruitment to add the presentations to it too. I have added the upcoming two already, but for the future. Can one or two people from the team join the group, and then Lee can make them group admins, so they can create events?

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Hello @reef-external and @reef-recruitment , is there a place on nextcloud where we save the names of the people who attend the presentations? I’ve checked next cloud but couldn’t find anything

Thanks, @alberto , i would like to discuss this with @joannes , as the team external coordinator. What we discussed yesterday with Joannes is that we should have more consistency in who does what between team recruitment & team external. If team external is the one promoting our events on our website and facebook, the same team should take care of posing & updating events on samenhuizen, habitat-groupé and Meetup.

One of the attendees at the online presentation last night came via seeing it on Meetup that afternoon :slight_smile:

The registration lists for each presentation can be found in the Drive of the Reef’s Gmail account (login details in the Team IT folder), with those that attended highlighted :slight_smile:

Thanks Chris. Now I remember you told me this during a plenary, but my 3-second fish memory could not retain it :sweat_smile:

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Hello @reef-recruitment,

It’s not a secret that quite a lot of things went wrong over the past month. That’s ok of course. Shit happens. It’s all good.

As a self-managed organisation however, I believe we owe it to ourselves to not sweep this under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen. It’s not about attributing guilt or blame of course, it’s more about understanding what went wrong and what we can learn from it, but also about making sure that nobody is left with feelings of frustration.

Therefore my suggestion would be to dedicate some time at one of your next meetings to a review. If you would want to chunk it, the way we usually do in sociocracy, it could look like something like this:

  • Understand: what went wrong exactly? Name and list the different things that didn’t go as they should have gone.

  • Explore: what was everybody’s responsibility in this? What can be done differently in the future?

  • Decide: synthesize on the key learnings.

If I could make a wish, it would be that at the end, there would be a short written report (0,5-1 page), accessible to the entire group. My assumption is that it may be reassuring for some people to better understand what happened (e.g. the links to the registration forms were not on the website for weeks), and to know that these problems have been looked into and that the key learnings are X, Y and Z.

Would that be something you’d be willing to take up?

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We’ve got a meeting on Saturday that @ugne is preparing an agenda for. Not sure if there’ll be enough time to do something like this justice though…

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thanks! we have a team external strategy meeting on sunday. it would be nice to have this info on what went wrong to inform the strategy.

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Hello @mieke and @reef-recruitment,

As we are experimenting with only having the prices without VAT in the public slide deck, I would like to propose to share a copy to the final slide deck with the people who attended (i.e. the one that also has a copy of the plans, and the table with the all inclusive prices) by email.

This would mean that I’d need to send you the link to the final slide deck after every presentation, but that’s not really a big effort. I will do it on Signal in a second.

@Lee - where does the ‘final slide deck’ live and do they need Nextcloud access it ?

@mieke - they would probably need an explanatory note that the slide deck they have a link to is what they saw this evening, and is different to the publicly accessible one on the ‘Key documents’ page…

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The slide deck are marked on the first slide: web vs final.

All are saved in Team R&O > Presentations > PowerPoint

I sent Mieke a public link via Signal, so no account is necessary.

So everything stays the same except the link that we are sharing.

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Hello @reef-recruitment,

I will forward a personal message that I received from Samenhuizen, with an offer to organise a presentation as part of their summer programme (like last year).

Can you please discuss this among you and reply to her?

TIA!

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@Lee would you be willing to give the presentation, and if yes, which Thursdays could we propose as options? Thx!

Not in the week of 18-25 July, other than that I should be available.