Understandably, teams and leaders are always curious about how to best monitor, track, and analyze data for various functions at the company. In this post, we’ll focus on: The most useful KPIs for People teams How to establish tracking and reporting metrics regarding these areas of responsibility Common metrics that are often misinterpreted or meaningless…
Tag: management
Developing and Growing Corporate Culture
I see some version of the following questions crop up fairly frequently, especially in the startup community, so I figured I’d take a moment to share a few thoughts. The questions go something like this: How should we take steps to implement a healthy corporate culture that will strengthen as we grow? If we’ve taken…
Lessons Learned From A Young Leader and Founder
With over a decade of hindsight since my first role as a leader at a very successful startup, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the mistakes I made and challenges I faced. The points below are specific to my experience, but hopefully have broad applications. In an effort to keep this from becoming ten…
Startup Leaders: Your Team’s Job Isn’t To Make Your Job Easier…Yet
In a startup, you need every bit of horsepower you can get; but few know how to harness that from their staff. I promise you, your people are hungry to achieve great things, they just have to be shown how. I know a lot of folks who work at startups; I have for over a…
Meaningless Buzzwords Are Killing (what could be) Your Startup’s Culture
Here’s how you can turn company values into a living organism, thriving in an ecosystem that is functional and makes sense. ∞ The crux of the problem: It’s not them, it’s you ∞ A collaborative, team environment sounds nice and is a great buzzword for People, HR, and Recruiting teams to throw out to staff and…