Drawing on my experience of building and running small teams, I'm going to share a few ideas on how to make yourself immensely valuable inside a startup or small team.
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Values are a great way of helping to
distill a culture into something
expressable, which allows you to
communicate it quickly and easily.
40. • Quickly get new team mates up to speed
• Enable them to become effective quickly
• Setup good, tight feedback loops
• Demonstrate & share our values
• Make it enjoyable!
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What does on-boarding success look like?
54. In the previous 12 months half our team changed
20% never made it through the first 6 months
50%
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55. Since we implemented this 12 months ago,
zero people who started on-boarding
have not made it to the end
100%
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56. @aajhiggs
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Onboarding was super useful.
I would say “friendly challenging”,
because there were lots of thing to
do and setup, but it was detailed
like a friendly tutorial.
Everyone seemed eager to help
too, which was nice.
“
58. Lots of opportunities to apply this!
How you do customer development calls
How you market new product features
How you roll out new software across the team
How you develop an team engineering manual
How the meetings in your week are structured
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60. Choose your ingredients wisely.
Create richer results by engaging others.
Know & apply your cultural values for
greater outcomes.
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