It is fairly simple: if you want to sustainably grow your organization by attracting, selecting and developing the right people, you have to have a professional, engaging working environment. This does not evolve simply by itself, it needs not only a strong idea what your organization should look and feel like, you also need to implement and continuously work on it.
In the absence of an HR department (which usually comes at a later stage, during or after scaling), it falls to the co-founder team to develop the vision and to guide its implementation. The founder-team does not need to do all by themselves, they can and should engage the team in delivering the employee value proposition. Our sprint shows how!
Our EVP framework consists of 5 elements: Roles and Jobs, the Material Offer, Growth and Development, Meaning and Purpose, Connection and Community.
Neither do you need to excel in all 5 elements, nor can you just disregard one single element entirely.
Key is to be coherent in what you present to the external labor market, to external talent and in what you deliver in the everyday life of your organization, as the employee experience.
You don’t need to pour money into your EVP, clarity, transparency and a good dash of creativity can achieve a lot!
Emerging organizations are in flux. Organization charts do relatively little to create or maintain clarity, since they are only a static snapshot. But role clarity is something both, the employees and the organization require.
Working together on job (or role) descriptions – by co-creating them, by peer-reviewing them, by regular discussions on aligning individual and shared responsibilities – can become a useful organizational practice. And AI can help in the (sometimes cumbersome) process of drafting job descriptions.
What holds all organizations together is communication – whether people work remotely or share an office space.
This is not about meetings just for the sake of meetings. But clarity and consistency with regards to which meetings serve which purpose.
Speaking of purpose: Shared Meaning & Purpose, one of the constituting elements of the Employee Value Proposition, is key in creating and cultivating connections.
In this sprint, we will explore the fundamentals of building an effective operating model to future-proof your business.
Participants will learn about the essential components of a scalable operating framework, which are: roles, structures, processes and systems, and how these work together.
