Companies need to adopt a paradigm shift in how they value their employees — Four years ago, IBM published a report through the IBM Institute for Business Value. Titled “Designing employee experience”, it was an executive report focusing on what IBM believed to be three core components in any compelling employee experience. Much like how designing customer experience has become a focus for many…

In 1994, Rochelle DiRe left the art world for a career in HR and hasn’t looked back. Since, she’s worked in the rapidly evolving media industry (including for Time Warner and Martha Stewart Omnimedia) as well as for a host of NYC startups (LimeWire, Quirky, Intent Media Inc, and Managed…

Welcome to the dawn of a new age in People Operations & HR

How to think about people when scaling a company. — Organizations thrive or die because of their people, and the question of what one has to do to build a truly great company is one that has no easy answer. People are complicated, and trying to work with and nurture them in a fast-growing organization is even more complicated. Just…

By Sabrina Kelly, Techstars Vice President of People Operations At Techstars, we define our mission in People Ops as the following: “We are strategic partners in building Techstars business by maximizing the value of our most important asset — our people. We attract, retain, develop, and support Techstars employees globally…

Building and scaling teams isn’t rocket science, but what is needed, and when, is not always obvious… I Co-Founded and scaled the People Ops at SuperAwesome in its first 6 years. I was devouring information. Yet, I didn’t have an understanding of what changes as you scale, and what factors…

People Operations (PO/HR) OKRs are a great way to create alignment, engage team members, and achieve high performance. In the article, we’ll answer the questions: How to write good HR (PO) OKRs? What are examples of good HR (PO) OKRs? What should I put in my HR (PO) OKRs? How…

The Definitive Guide to Building and Aligning Company Culture In Any Company Size — In 2017, Uber made history for the wrong reasons. Former Uber employee, Susan Fowler, wrote an essay on her blog about her year at Uber as a site reliability engineer. The disclosure revealed something rampant in the ride-hailing giant’s offices: sexual harassment was somehow permitted. There was unfettered festering at…