EARLY DRAFT: This guide still needs a lot more work before it is ready. Most things here will probably change before it reaches a publishable state.

Learners Guild Team Guide

At Learners Guild we’re working to build a purpose driven organization. That’s an easy thing to want and say, but it’s difficult to practice. It takes active effort to articulate our guiding principles, and our values, and to express them day to day.

This repository contains all our agreements, policies, operating models, values and guiding principles. It is meant to be a living and dynamic support of the way we are working together. It’s certainly not perfect, but we think it’s an exciting place to start.

All feedback and suggestions (especially in the form of pull requests) are very appreciated. This is a work in progress that we hope will get better with more time and more contributors.

Shereef Bishay GCC Lead Link Learners Guild

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Guiding Principles

• Mission Statement
• Values
• Strategy

Operating Model

• Working Together
• Organization & Governances
• Getting Things Done
• Internal Transparency
• Language
• Sourcing Candidates
• Interview Process
• Budgeting
• Onboarding
• Sharing Files

Employment Policies

• Equal Opportunity Employment
• At-Will Employment
• Salary and Equity Compensation
• Code of Conduct in the Community
• Complaint Policy
• Drug and Alcohol Policy

Hiring Documents

• Acknowledgement of Receipt
• [Learners Guild Offer Letter](https://github.com/LearnersGuild/guide/blob/master/Hiring%20Documents/Learners Guild%20Offer%20Letter.md)
• Partner Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement
• Guide to Your Equity
• Guide Introduction

Onboarding Documents

• Welcome to Learners Guild
• Objectives and Key Results

Benefits and Perks

• Health Care and Disability Insurance
• Vacation and Sick Leave
• Holiday List
• Referral Bonuses
• Continuing Education
• Sabbatical
• New Parent Leave
• Other Protected Absences

Acknowledgements

A large chunk of this Guide was forked from Clef's excellent Partner Handbook Holacracy pages and how-tos was forked from the excellent folks at DevBootcamp

Feel free to fork this repository and use any or all of these policies, and to modify them in whatever way makes sense for your company. We hope that by publishing them, other companies can benefit from our efforts (and Clef's)