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RECRUIT AND HIRE THE DREAM TEAM |
Hiring is arguably the most important job of a people manager. Hire well and you’ll have a high performing and happy team. But make one hiring mistake and you’ll spend a lot of time and emotional energy trying to fix your team. To help you build out a healthy team, we’ve gathered an expert playbook for hiring remarkable employees.
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These days, freelance writers often are a dime a dozen. But a good one -- who can both write and be reliable -- can be a bit more difficult to find. As you scale your team, it might not be viable to hire full-time content creators right away. This blog post will help you find freelancers that are well worth the money.
Read the Full ArticleThe secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.
Steve Jobs
Cofounder, Former CEO
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TRAIN YOUR GROWING TEAM |
As you build your company, the marketing hires you make will be crucial to the health of your funnel and the trust of your customers. Learn how to identify goals for a growing marketing team and how to realistically face skill set gaps.
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Twenty four percent of marketing teams state that training is a top challenge. And because of the ever-changing technology and trends of the marketing industry, it’s easy for some skills to fall through the cracks. As you look to train a world-class team, use this research report to build a curriculum around the skills marketers worldwide are having the most trouble with.
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DELEGATE YOUR DUTIES |
It’s not easy balancing your own tasks with the needs of your team. Between all of those one-on-one check-ins and team meetings, you’ll likely need to rethink how you prioritize. Here are some top tips to help you get more done in your limited time.
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Delegating your duties is hardly natural. Yet, when done well, it opens you up to tackle larger problems and tells your team they’re a trusted, significant part of the company. As you decide which tasks to pass along, ask yourself these questions to gauge when delegating will be beneficial.
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SCALE YOUR CULTURE |
Today, power is gained by sharing knowledge, not by hoarding it.
Dharmesh Shah
Chief Technology Officer
As you scale your culture throughout your growing team, communicating the value of transparency among your employees will be crucial. Set an example of thoughtfully sharing data for your managers to follow. That way, employees will be better able to anticipate problems, make informed decisions, and stay productive.
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MASTER GIVING FEEDBACK |
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally attacked by a compliment sandwich. At some point or another, we all probably have. As you evaluate the effectiveness of your current performance review process, weigh the strengths and weaknesses of each of these standard frameworks.
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Still looking for the ideal performance review framework? Hopefully, you’re always looking to improve how you give feedback. Consider Kim Scott’s philosophy of radical candor to reach the perfect balance of caring personally and challenging directly.
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STUDY STORIES OF SCALE |
By Jim Collins - Learn how some of the top performing companies of the last century stacked up to their competitors and what factors made them different.
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By Walter Isaacson - This book tells the story of the entrepreneurs and tech geniuses who started the internet and launched a revolution of disruption.
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By Marshall Goldsmith - Discover how to climb the last few rungs of the corporate ladder and avoid the common flaws of upper management.
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The skills needed to launch a business are often not the same as what’s needed to scale it. In this article, HubSpot’s CEO and cofounder Brian Halligan writes about his own career development as he led the company into the scale-up phase.
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Once you get the math of your business model to work in your favor, it takes some challenging decisions and prioritization to get your math to scale. In this post, HubSpot’s CEO and cofounder shares how he and his team had to reconsider their persona and pricing model to grow.
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