Onboarding: For Mentors, Managers and Supervisors

​Orienting your new director: Use these resources to help both you and your new lab director get comfortable with the change.

• Public Health Lab Profiles, housed in the Survey Resource Center, give APHL members need-to-know information about each state’s public health labs, such as their programs, laws, functions, budgets and more.

​Ongoing evaluation: As a mentor or supervisor, take care to schedule frequent check-ins with your new lab director—both informal meetings and formal evaluations—to ease the onboarding process. Here are evaluation tools to help:

• Lab Director Progress Report
• Lab Director Performance Review
• Exit Interview and Knowledge Retention

​Communicating the change: While the communication team guides this effort, lab leadership can help.

• The APHL Public Health Lab Awareness Toolkit includes communications tips and resources on how to talk about your lab and the transition.
• Messaging Templates:
  • Press Release Template
  • Communications templates, such as a model Letter to the Legislator and a Wikipedia template entry, will help ease your communications efforts.
• The Mentoring Program Guide will walk you through creating a mentoring program.