table (grouped the other way) with a place to check off milestones for each area. Use the links above to drill into each area / take notes. Use this view to check your overall progress!
Your 8 week onboarding plan
10
Team
12
Business
12
Product
9
Technology
8
Cadence
8
Strategy
13
Team
12
Business
12
Product
9
Technology
8
Cadence
8
Strategy
13
1
1-1s with all reports
1-1s with key sales and marketing leaders (including BD, ops, comms, legal, etc as appropriate)
Get finance team run-down of past performance
Go through unaided new user onboarding for each of the key personas of the product (persona 1, persona 2, admins, etc)
1-1s with key Product, Eng, Ux leaders
Have each eng area lead draw me a picture of how their part of the stack works
Attend all meetings my predecessor went to
Read last N board decks and make notes / questions
Read last N post-planning strategy memos and make notes / questions
CEO briefing: What’s on their mind?
2
1-1s with all next level reports
1-1s with all peers
Shadow 5 sales pitches
Shadow 5 support calls
Go through active marketing campaigns
Have each product area leader walk through how their area of the product works
Redraw all the pictures and present back for feedback (”did I get this right?”)
Attend/ observe most of the skip-level meetings that my reports go to
Get current strategy pitch from key functional leaders and random employees
CEO check-in: Early questions and impressions
3
1-1s with key culture carriers (ask around for who they are!)
1-1s with key cross-functional leads
Reviewed interview feedback for the last N hires
Do side-by-side training of sales tools (Salesforce, etc)
Review last N product reviews for each product area
Have engineer help setup a dev environment for me
Attend/observe most of the meetings that my peers go to
Interview board of directors on their views on strategy
Meet with trusted 3rd parties (analysts, other investors, etc) and ask for competitive strategy breakdown
CEO check-in: Early questions and impressions
4
Draft of new org plan ready for soft socialization