Founders must focus on culture-building and employee experience, even in the early days. Soon it will be a full-time job.
We spoke to seven new hires to learn about the challenges they faced in their first few weeks.
Here's how to give feedback next time you have the chance.
How Allison Kopf uses employee task forces to make cultural change.
How Alexandria Brown built a holistic compensation plan for a Cannabis company.
How Kerry established organization-wide priorities to create strong cultural buy-in and operational success.
Here are some questions to consider when leading an exit interview.
So, you’ve you been chosen to become an onboarding buddy? Congrats! Here's what you need to know.
How Shazia created a council to raise awareness, audit practices, and elevate voices.
How Mike Kohn built and applied a framework for policy changes.
Onboarding became the backbone of new hire experience and growth. Follow this list during your 30-60-90 day check ins.
Set up the onboarding experience in your company by following this 30-60-90 day checklist.
Gather's favorite icebreaker questions for remote teams.
How Amanda McKay thought about all aspects of wellness in the workplace.
How Erica Woods ensures parents working remote feel supported.
How Jessica Chan created a day dedicated to onboarding the most recent hires.
How Amanda Qualls scaled virtual onboarding to remove barriers new employees faced
How Noah Warder structures his companywide performance review programs.
How Natasha Avery built a remote hackathon that brought her team together.
How Katie Lane recognized the differences in the need of her new vs. experience managers.
Meaningful 1:1s became the backbone of employee experience and growth. Follow this list during your 1:1s.
Set up the onboarding experience in your company by following this checklist.
Step-by-step checklist to help you launch all-hands meeting in your company.
Here's how to start having regular 1:1s in your company.
Streamline your offboarding process with multiple stakeholders with this checklist.
Easy-to-use checklist for when implementing a new policy.
How to build an onboarding buddy program to give your new hires off to a strong start from day one on the job.
How Natasha Avery experimented her way into building more natural social connectedness.
How Caitlin Cuskley build an onboarding program that gave new hire's more context.
How Mike Kohn perfected his new hire Day One experience.
How Suzanne Griffin built a manager training program to solve a performance problem.
How Kirsten McMurray built a cultural icon at Detour, Inc.
A story of volunteering together while working remotely
So you've just been hired as the first Head of People at a startup.
Supporting first-time managers in their new role is essential.
Producing All Hands meetings requires a high level of coordination.
Slack is the new frontier for internal communication. Here's how to use it.
A list of inspiring questions to ask in your onboarding surveys.
Workplace celebrations are tangible signals of what matters to your organization.
Supporting working parents extends beyond parental leave.
How to create the best birthday reminder workflows.
Last impressions are often lasting impressions, and offboarding is a company’s chance to get it right.
Onboarding buddies help increase social-connectedness, happiness, and productivity in new hires.
There's more than one way to do company perks.
Managers have employees work for them— leaders work for their teams.
Oprah teaches a fundamental lesson about what humans want.
Remote onboarding requires designing intentional connections to integrate a new hire onto the team.
How and why to celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries for teammates working remote.
People Operations teams can be the work environment architects that help managers be more proactive leaders.
How to think about the moments that matter during the employee journey.
HR Tech stacks are growing. How do we combat software fatigue?
Why do people leave their jobs? Why we founded Gather.
People Operations has some major obstacles to overcome in the next few years.
What is startup culture and where did it go wrong?
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