hr in start up!? aiesec dec 2016

TAGonSoftWe do mobile and we do it well!

HR in Start-up?!


Who am I?


Alexandru Terente

• Developer, Speaker, Trainer and technology addicted

• Founder of ATCSoft (dead company)

• Founder of TAGonSoft (5 years of activity)


TAGonSoft


Founded 5 years ago


We are now 6 people


And we are still a Start-up


And we will remain a Start-up


TAGonSoft

• Software development company

• Focused on Mobile solution

• Mainly doing outsourcing

• Dreaming on our own products


HR


What is HR?


What does the HR department do?


Do we need a HR department?


What about HR in Start-up?!


Most important HR issues in a Start-up


HR in Start-up

• Personality

• Transparency

• Why do we exists as a company?


Personality

• Create a “mix” of employs

• Reflect the personality of our customers

• Founders should hire different personality from their own


Transparency• Inform your employees about the business

• Don’t over inform

• Give only clear information

• Don’t give to low information

• Balance the right level of business information


Why do we exists as a company?

• The most important thing is Why?

• As the company grows you rely on your team to represent the company and transmit “Why you exist”


“Why?”

• Transmit to initial employees the vision of the future

• Make them understand “Why” the company exists

• “Why“ we do what we do?


Employee Importance


Employee Importance• The power of company relays in the skills and

power of their employees

• You hire the greatest people and they are self-managing

• What they need is a common vision, a leadership

• Once they know what they have to do they will figure out how to do it


Self policing

• Create a core group that share the same vision and they will become self policing on who will let in the group

• People work because they want to work if they believe in what they are doing

• Don't work because there is work to be done.


Your job is to hire great people!


Hire great people and empower them

• Do not micro manage

• Empower them to take decisions

• Take risk and hire people with passion not the most technical skilled guys


Inspire and lead people


Vison

• The vision needs to be reiterated form time to time

• Transmit the core vision of the business and make sure every one understands it

• Keep the vision simple so anybody can understand it and transmit it


Vison

• Do something that matters do something big

• You have to touch the emotion part of the humans

• The vision is interpreted different from each people so make sure you do the best to transmit the correct vision


Inspire

• Make the people feel that can achieve something bigger than themselves

• You have to believe what you say because the people can feel it if you lie

• Be and transmit confidence


Lead

• You can have a position but you may not be a leader

• If the people follow you because they have to you will not get the best from your people

• You have to be a likeable person so people can like and follow you


Lead• Relationships are the foundation of leadership

• Listen well

• Observe

• Learn

• With attitude of servitude

• Is a mind set a culture of servitude


Momentum


Momentum

• Build momentum

• People follow you if you have problems but you have a big momentum


People development


People development• Grow your people skills

• Bring good people (recruitment)

• Positioning (put them in the right place)

• Successful people find them self on what they are good at

• Successful people position them self well


People development

• Successful leaders position other people well

• No mater how talented you are if you are position in a wrong position you will not perform well

• Be mentor, be a coach transfer the knowledge and then ask others to do it for you


Respect


Respect

• Respect your people

• People follow you when they respect you

• Work hard to be respected by the people


Q&A?


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hr in start up!? aiesec dec 2016

Recruiting & HR