Buyers don’t make rational decisions; rather, they make emotional decisions and then justify those by rationalizing them after the fact. This is true even for business customers, who have to use spreadsheets and numbers to support their decisions.

Man Is Not A Rational Animal; He Is A Rationalizing Animal

In the 1950s, Dr. Eric Berne developed the theory of transactional analysis to better understand how people communicate. According to the theory, people have three ego states that influence their behavior during social interactions: the adult, the child, and the parent.

The Adult, The Child And The Parent

The salesman David H. Sandler, together with a psychologist colleague, used some of the theory of transactional analysis to develop Sandler Training. According to the Sandler Selling System, a buying prospect must be emotionally involved in the sale; the “pain” of not having the product has to affect them on an emotional level.

The Pain Of Not Having The Product

When we make buying decisions, we like to think that our ego’s “adult” state is the one that’s working the hardest, that the logical, analytical, rational part of our behavioral framework weighs both sides of the argument and comes back with a solution. However, Sandler recognized that neither the “adult” nor the “parent” state is at work until the “child” wants the product. Many of our buying decisions originate in the ego’s child state, where our inner 6-year-old tells us they want something without delay.

It’s Always The Child That Asks For Things

There are more sales techniques, methodologies, and frameworks than one could count. Most of them probably work when they are correctly applied, and then there are some that might even hurt the business rather than help it. In the end, they are like exercise—the best approach is the one that works for you.

Trial And Error

Everything in life is sales. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. Appealing to a “consumer's” inner child and applying a trial-by-error approach are two ways to make sales more effectively.

Businesses aren’t rational customers—they just look like it.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The business world is built so that there is an insane abundance of deals, businesses, opinions, ways, suppliers and customers. This abundance is sometimes very confusing, and in times of crisis or financial distress, we are sometimes tempted to do things we would not choose to do on a normal day.Without a doubt, my biggest mistakes boil down to one thing: I did not listen to my intuition.

The biggest business mistake I made and what I learned from it.


The most important thing to understand as a business owner, is that everyone has the customers, the suppliers and the deals that are right for them and they are different from a colleague who deals with exactly the same thing.That’s why by the way why there’s no such thing as real competitors but that's for another post. The abilities of each of us to give service to a customer or work with a supplier, are different, hence the right choice is important even when it is very financially tempting, or there is someone who convinces us that it is a great deal.

Over the years, I have sharpened my intuitive abilities, and they have always proven themselves in my favor. These capabilities serve as a very strong internal compass spring, which if given the right place, one can easily identify whether we are dealing with a good or bad deal.Despite all this, it happened more than once that I turned off this important capability and chose to work with clients who from the beginning turned out to be a huge mistake for me and the explosion that followed was inevitable.

There’s a very big place for your intuition in business! This is your way of understanding the situation despite all the subjective noise of the environment. One can easily understand whether your feeling is fear or intuition so it is important to develop and use this skill as much as possible.

First, that I am human. No one is free from mistakes and whoever does not try is not failing, and therefore does not progress.I also learned how much I know, even when I do not really know all the details. I definitely understand that contacting a customer or supplier, right from the start, can give me a lot of valuable information, that if I choose to see, I can navigate my way as I choose.The most important thing I learned, is that even when you make a mistake, you can learn and correct it. In such a valuable lesson, it is important to understand what we have learned from what has happened.

What did I learn from this mistake?


Everybody makes mistakes, especially when starting something new. But when you’re starting your own business, big mistakes can be very costly — in money, time, and energy.

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Keeping your message focused for your target demographic will make it that much easier to both create content around your personal brand and have others define you.

1. Have a focus.

“Be genuine. It will make it much easier to manage your personal brand on a daily basis,”

2. Be genuine.

If your personal brand isn’t telling a story, you’ve already lost half of your potential audience. Allen Gannett, chief strategy officer at Skyword and author of The Creative Curve explains it best:” The most effective personal branding strategy these days is to build a true narrative – single character monologues are boring in Tinseltown, and even more boring for your personal brand.”

3. Tell a story.

Being consistent is very similar to having a narrow focus—it’s much easier to get recognized for one topic if you consistently create content and brand voice around it.

4. Be consistent.

Failure is tough, and all of us generally want to avoid it – that’s human nature. However, to have a personal brand that rises above the rest, you need to have a failure. Walt Disney spoke of this often when he reminisced about his failed first attempts at creating an animation brand. “I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you’re young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. ”

5. Be ready to fail.

Creating the right personal brand will not only help you be known in your field and consistently land work but it could be the difference between “Who are you?” and “Thank you for being here” in your career.

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I believe you can produce insight even if you are not an autistic genius.You can simply integrate massive amounts of stimuli per unit of time and change.Train yourself to get back to first principles thinking.

What type of genius are you?

If you are feeling sad, you can make other people love you.Make is a strong word, but hear me out! If you are sufficiently effective to prove yourself useful multiple times and produce things, people will be naturally more drawn to you.It is far more effective to build yourself an incubator where you can gather and have conversations with people on the same spectrum, but different in subtle ways.

Build a Growth Incubator Full of People (Part 1)

In the old days, if you owned something like an Inn, you pretty much had it covered. You would connect to people by default, providing food, drinks, and shelter on a rainy day. You could then make favors and have leverage. Remember the <a href="https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Vander">Vander</a> and the <a href="https://youtu.be/1KauKfmOsLk">first episode of Arcane</a>? mini-spoiler alert::::man: You folks need anything?woman: Leave us.man: You sure about that? Sounded to me like…woman: Piss off.man: Ah. ( object scrapes ) I think I know what you need.woman: You don’t seem to listen, barman…man: A bit of advice. Don’t threaten the guy who pours the drinkswoman: So you’re Vander.

Build a Growth Incubator Full of People (Part 2)

You can become lethal by developing skills as a non-technical individual, assuming that you have some blend of self-awareness and some method to absorb the world around you. If you storm through the city during rush hour, managing to solve micro-errands, texting, catching the bus, employing various and personal self-orientation techniques while keeping your head clear and protecting your decision-making capabilities, you are on the right track. If you believe what you want to do and gradually prove yourself legit, the world itself will shape around your goals. Less talk, more work.

Non-technical, but useful

Genius is such an overrated buzzword. You can become one in your own way.

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Games have existed probably for more than 3000 years, the first we can recollect being the invention of rolling the dice in Persia. However, gamification is a different term, which is defined by including the game experience in elements that are naturally not necessarily all fun and games.

What is gamification? 

In order for a game to be fun, it has to respect four principles:<ul><li>it is tied to a goal: every goal has an outcome in mind, a definition of win or lose or of finding something</li><li>it has rules: every game has constraints that its players has to know and respect in order for the game to exist</li><li>feedback: there is constant feedback on how you are progressing in the game</li><li>voluntary participation: what makes it fun is that it is not mandatory to play it, and people can choose not to enter it or start it whenever they want</li></ul>

Basic principles of game fun

The easiest way to boost endorphin release with gamification is create situations where your users will feel they have achieved something. Rather than giving rewards for clicking buttons, you need to create challenges that actually require skill and effort to complete. If they feel they have worked hard, they will get that feeling of fiero and with luck a hit of endorphins.

<ol><li>Manage the mission: whenever using gamification, it is crucial to have a mission tied to it (e.g. we want our gamification to result in 80% of people coming to our platform 1 week after onboarding) </li><li>Monitor motivation: at each step, understand what motivates the user and if your game mechanics are applied correctly</li><li>Measure the metric: at each step, measure where you are compared to the original mission</li></ol>

The 3Ms of Gamification

There are different types of players in a game with different motivation: <ul><li>The Achiever - the objective is to collect accomplishments among the way and showcase status (10% of people)</li><li>The Explorer - he/she wants to discover and learn new things (10% of people). Likes to gradually discover new areas and skills</li><li>The Socializer - wants to collaborate with others, the objective is to achieve things but not on their own, rather in teams (70-80% of people)</li><li>The Killer - want to see other people lose and he/she winning compared to them (1% of people)</li></ul>

Player-Centered Design

Gamification can boost engagement in a product if tied to the right motivation

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Email marketing is a form of digital marketing used to communicate to leads with emails. Marketers commonly use newsletters, event invitations, and informational emails to communicate with their audience. Email marketing is a type of direct line that can be used to educate a lead about your products and convince your lead to purchase a product. Email marketing has the highest ROI on investment than other marketing tactics.

Email Marketing

Email marketing is the best marketing channel there is. Reasons you should pick email:<ul><li>You don’t have to worry about algorithm changes like SEO and social media.</li><li>You can use your emails to drive traffic to your website.</li><li>With email marketing, your lists are yours.</li></ul>

Why Email marketing is important

Six steps to help you get started<ol><li>Identify your target audience. These are the people that will be willing to buy your products.</li><li>Obtain the right tools to create, send, manage and track the metrics of your email campaigns. An Email Service Provider (ESP) can be excellent.</li><li>Create attainable goals. Emails are, on average, 21,5% effective.</li><li>Build your email list based on those who have permitted you to send them emails.</li><li>Segment your list based on age, sex, location, etc.</li><li>Measure your results. EXP has made this task easily accessible. Make small changes to your email and watch the effects.</li></ol>

Create a marketing strategy

A squeeze page is a web page made to capture potential customers. It’s used to squeeze information out of a visitor by limiting access to content.Your main purpose for using a squeeze page is to capture leads and turn them into your customer.You can also give your visitors other options, such as a link to browse other pages on your website, or products.

Build your email list with squeeze pages


Lead magnets attract visitors and prospects that are added to your email list. Lead magnets are free things you give in exchange for their email, such as:<ul><li>Ebooks</li><li>Video</li><li>A Course</li><li>Webinar</li><li>Template</li><li>Whitepaper</li><li>Coupons</li><li>Discount on a product</li></ul> <ol><li>Your lead magnet must be free.</li><li>It should be easily consumed, such as a quick course, a short video, etc.</li><li>Actionable. You should offer them something that they can apply immediately.</li><li>Relevant. Know your target audience and their personas to offer something relevant to them.</li></ol>

Capture leads with a Lead Magnet

An opt-in is the next step after your lead magnet. It is a way to get your prospects' information, thereby adding them to your list. Steps to a great opt-in form:<ul><li>Create an attention-grabbing headline that clearly defines the offer.</li><li>Use a great description that is brief and to the point.</li><li>Make it simple. Don't use a complex form.</li><li>Ensure it is attractive. Include the mock-up image of what you are offering.</li><li>Have a captivating Call-To-Action (CTA): Your CTA is your subscribe button. It doesn't need to have the word subscribe on it, "Get your free Ebook" looks more natural.</li></ul>

Creating an effective Opt-in form

We are not talking about pop-ups that attack you once you land on a webpage. An exit-intent popup only appears immediately you want to leave a website. If the visitors found your content helpful, they are more likely to subscribe.

Exit-Intent Popups

There are many factors involved with open rates:<ul><li>Avoid the spam filter</li></ul><ol><li>Get their permission first before sending an email.</li><li>Use an Email Service Provider, to avoid ending up on the spam list.</li><li>Send your email through a verified domain.</li><li>Send your emails from a good IP address.</li><li>Include your location.</li><li>Don’t use click-bait headlines.</li><li>Include an unsubscribe button.</li></ol> <ul><li>Time your emails effectively</li></ul>The A/B testing tool of the ESP can test the best time to send out emails.<ul><li>Delete your inactive members after 4 to 6 months.</li><li>Use a catchy headline.</li></ul>

How to improve your email open rates

<ul><li>Use humour; they work great.</li><li>Ensure to optimize your email for mobile; 67% of email opens are mobile.</li><li>Storytelling always works.</li><li>Always write great content so that they will await your email.</li><li>Use headlines that will make them curious.</li></ul>

Other open rate tips

The email service provider handles all the technical stuff and makes creating and sending out bulk emails easy. examples include: <ul><li>Mailchimp is a free email service provider that offers a free plan for the first 2000 subscribers. It's easy to set up and has easy-to-use features.</li><li>Convertkit is free for up to 1000 subscribers. It is great for creators like professional bloggers, authors, musicians, etc.</li><li>Constant Contact is used in the e-commerce sector. They allow their users to create email designs with killer templates.</li><li>Hubspot is a CRM platform and one of the best Email Service providers.</li></ul>

Choosing an Email Service Provider (ESP)

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Many financial institutions have recently undergone major risk transformations that drove universal risk capability uplift and cultural shift. Uplifting risk management capability for financial institutions can be particularly challenging if the required transformation requires coordination across business areas and functions. For two decades, there has been an intense focus on nonfinancial risks (NFRs). While regional or global “super incidents” originally drove the emergence of NFRs as a theme, the evolution of NFR management is ongoing, with variations in form, region and severity.

Risk Transformation: The Premise

The implications of a super incident can be significant and include direct financial losses, fines, compensation or remediation costs, and reputational damage. Secondary effects could include reduced sales or accelerated disintermediation by other market participants (such as fintechs) due to lost trust.

A Super Incident

This environment drove financial institutions to initiate major risk transformation programs to address incidents, immediate issues, and deeper root causes. These programs have significant monetary costs. However, the opportunity cost for the organization is much higher, given the amount of management attention and organizational capacity required for successful delivery and sustainable conclusion.

The Costs Involved

The biggest challenge in starting a risk transformation is often not the “why” or the “what,” but the “how.” Questions include how to set it up and conclude it, and then transition back to enhanced business as usual. Large-scale risk transformations often fail because change is not effectively implemented across the organization: milestones are ticked off without actually improving risk management, addressing underlying culture, or reducing risk.

The Question Is How

These transformations are typically business-led, driven by embedded line-one risk and control teams. Such transformations often include process, system, and control mapping; process simplification, digitization, and automation; documenting, decommissioning, and building ideally automated, preventative controls and monitoring in critical process breakpoints; and clarifying responsibilities.

The Four Broad Categories of Risk Transformations: Business Area 

These transformations are typically business-led, driven by embedded line-one risk and control teams. Such transformations often include process, system, and control mapping; process simplification, digitization, and automation; documenting, decommissioning, and building ideally automated, preventative controls and monitoring in critical process break points; and clarifying responsibilities.

Risk-Type-Specific Capability Uplift And/or Remediation 

These transformations are typically driven by the respective risk experts (such as a money laundering reporting officer for financial crime and chief information security officer for cyber crime) and supported by the risk function. Such transformations often include risk-type framework and operating-model uplift, paired with targeted remediation of severe issues for a specific risk type. They are often triggered by severe incidents, issues, and regulatory scrutiny.

These transformations are typically driven by the risk function. Such transformations often include defining the ambition and value proposition of the risk function; improving the structure of the function (including divisions, risk-type expertise regions, and shared services); simplifying and clarifying the interactions with the business and other functional areas; and identifying and hiring capabilities to deliver.

Risk Function Operating-Model Uplift

These transformations are typically board or CEO-sponsored programs involving all businesses and functions and considering all (nonfinancial) risks. Such transformations often include<ul><li> uplifting the risk management framework and policy governance;</li><li> establishing, improving or operationalizing the risk taxonomy;</li><li> improving the risk appetite statement, in particular, for NFR metrics cascaded into business and operationalization;</li><li> uplifting and implementing a code of conduct and consistently operationalizing the three lines of defense model.</li></ul>

Holistic Enterprise-Wide Risk Transformation

Risk transformations often take two to three years of dedicated effort, with enterprise-wide transformations typically taking three to five years. While transformation setups differ, most have a central program team of five to ten full-time equivalents (FTEs) for smaller transformations, with holistic risk transformations running central teams of 15 to 50 FTEs that focus on coordination, tracking, quality assurance, sharing of best practices, and support for the most challenging problems, including the coordinated delivery of change across business areas and functions.

The Time Factor

After supporting numerous businesses through transformations, we have found that while the science of transformations is crucial to get right, it is the heart and the art that deliver transformation programs to their successful conclusion and sustainably embed the change across the organization.With science and art, the key conditions are in place for a successful risk program. But the heart is a prerequisite for deep cultural change, which is required for a sustainable enterprise-wide transformation.

What Makes A Successful Risk Program

<ul><li>Science speaks to the mechanics that need to be in place around program structure, integrated plan development, delivery mechanisms, and regulator engagement throughout the process.</li><li>Art refers to capabilities, accountability, prioritization, and the use of targeted interventions to keep the program on track.</li><li>Heart includes genuine shared motivation or purpose, a transformation mindset, a willingness to challenge cultural norms, and a program of communication that connects with the professional identity of employees. </li></ul>

The Science, The Heart, The Art

“Because the regulator wants it” is not an intrinsic motivation—one needs to dig deeper and consider the motivations of employees. Successful transformation in any circumstance will require as much of a change in mindset as in any system or process. An in-depth diagnostic of the psychology of the organization can help define a vision of change that connects to the collective motivation and purpose of the organization and ensures that the desired change will stick in the long term. “Serving our customers better” is an example of collective motivation.

Getting to The ‘Heart’: Motivation

The mindset of the transformation needs to balance delivery discipline and accountability; agility and pragmatism; continuous improvement; and a sense of chronic unease. This mindset will enable organizations to do what they say while still being able to course-correct and improve when new information becomes available and to quickly spot and address emerging challenges. If a risk transformation is initiated in response to a major incident, an honest appraisal of what drove the failures and adequate humbleness when considering the magnitude of the required cultural change is key.

Transformation Mindset

Organizations have a variety of cultural traits that help them thrive in transformation but also some that hold them back. Traits that often lead to unsuccessful or stalled transformations include being too siloed or too collaborative. This can lead to change being implemented inconsistently or stopped by a few business areas, or over-collaboration that results in a lack of productivity and missed deadlines.

Culture

Motivation must reach the hearts and minds of employees. An intensive and continuous dialogue with a broad set of stakeholders allows a transformation program to keep its finger on the pulse while also enabling staff to own challenges and drive solutions. Communication needs to build on the organization and its leadership’s personal motivation—this is what makes it genuine and effective.

Communication

<ul><li>The skills required to transform are often not those required to manage. </li><li>A risk transformation program team must have capabilities across project execution, strategy, and risk management. </li><li>The team should adopt both an inward- and outward-looking mindset that leverages the experiences of others. </li><li>Key roles in the business and the risk function may require new talent to bring fresh impetus to transform or deviate from ingrained practices (that is, breaking the mould). </li><li>Targeted external support for the expertise and ongoing challenges and advice is reasonable.</li></ul>

Appreciating the ‘Art’: Capability

Large-scale risk transformations require collective accountability: the whole executive team must stack hands to deliver the target outcome. The complexity and duration of these programs make them hard to execute; they are often costly and feel more like a burden than an opportunity. Balancing the accountabilities of individuals versus the whole organization, and linking program outcomes to remuneration, are both critical. Strong top-down authority from the board and CEO is essential in supporting prioritization, providing advice, and clearing roadblocks.

Accountability

One of the biggest challenges is managing competing priorities and ensuring that the organization can absorb the amount of change required. This requires clear articulation of short- and long-term milestones to prioritize and sequence change at regular intervals. A radical simplification lens, which addresses gold plating by particular framework teams and over-implementation by the businesses, can reduce the need to deprioritize and descope.

Prioritization

Means to anticipate hurdles and support course correction must be created: formal mechanisms to identify expected challenges in the form of regular premortem exercises and formal program reviews are essential. The central decision-making body needs the authority to rapidly course correct through reprioritizing or redeploying resources. This is also critical to address change fatigue, which will naturally occur over the course of a three-year program.

Intervention Mechanisms

Banks often consider risk transformation as the accountability of the risk function. However, this setup may just scratch the surface and fail to address root causes and systemic issues. Effective large-scale risk transformation requires particular accountability for the program to be assigned across functional leadership and business areas, where many of the inadequacies in systems, processes, and behaviours originate. Coordination between these stakeholders is essential and often driven by a neutral, central program team that sits outside of lines one and two.

Excelling At The ‘Science’: Program Structure

Implementation of complex change across the business (line one) is often where risk transformations fail. The best-designed set of change initiatives can fail without an effective delivery mechanism that supports implementation and sustainable embedment of change. Developing a mechanism to ensure appropriate engagement between lines two and one in the design of change initiatives—and a well-coordinated and considered delivery mechanism for supporting line one implementation—is critical. vv

Delivery Mechanism

Transparency and continuous dialogue with regulators are important. Proactive, professional, and respectful engagement can enable greater understanding and appreciation for regulators with respect to the challenges faced in large-scale risk transformations and can encourage offers for guidance and positive reinforcement. Regulators might share their own expectations and observations from other institutions and provide insight into their own priorities.

Regulatory Engagement

As the above three elements (heart, art, and science) demonstrate, successfully concluding a risk transformation seldom ends with just milestones in a work plan, ending a monitorship, or meeting regulatory commitments. These are important, but genuinely transformative success lies in the smooth shift from programmatic setup to sustainably uplifted business-as-usual operations with embedded mechanisms for further improvement.

The Bottom Line

Risk transformations: The heart, the art, and the science

Nearly a decade ago, most candidates applied to 70-80 jobs before finding themselves in a company,  It wasn’t for lack of skills or education, but rather the labour market was so tight people had to take what they could get. Today, it’s a vastly different climate: falling birth rates, slowed immigration, record retirement, an exploding gig economy, and the workforce as we know it is hungry for talent.

The Job Climate: A Raincheck

In America alone, there are 11 million vacant positions and only 6.5 million people to fill them. We’re in the middle of a talent crisis. Employees have unprecedented leverage, and the Great Resignation as we know it is just beginning. <ul><li>When the pandemic first hit,  millions of employees learned how to operate in a remote world. </li><li>It introduced a cocktail of complexities; for one, many bosses weren’t especially supportive or skilled in leading remote teams. </li><li>This new work style propelled people to adjust their personal lives.</li></ul>

Wave 1: Change By Force(2020 Onwards)

As the office seems safe for return, employers across the country call their people back. To be clear, there are no outside forces mandating us back—leadership is. Not surprisingly, there’s a mixture of reactions. Over the next couple of months, we’ll see even more people quit because they simply don’t want to come back to the workplace. Their new home in the country is far more comfortable, they will avoid their lengthy commute, public toilets and also want to save money on gas.

Wave 2: Change By Choice(Mid 2022)

Employees have the upper hand as companies are desperate for talent; so employees can pressure their bosses to allow flexibility.Many companies are developing flexible systems and negotiable schedules for employees, including Wells Fargo, Ford, The Social Security Administration, and Microsoft.

The Present Reality

The third wave gradually happens. According to the <a href="https://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/data.html">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, approximately 26.4 million people in the U.S. moved in 2021. We’ll see A-players putting their foot down to stay remote. Employers won’t have a choice but to let them work remotely if they want to keep them. But what happens to the rest of the office when the top dogs are allowed to work remotely? In short: animosity, disdain, and envy. Finally, frustration will boil over, and people will find flexible jobs.

Wave 3: Picking Favourites(Mid 2022 Onwards)

In reality, many companies are still tying the carrot-and-stick methodology instead of investing in solid cultures employees want to join. Instead, they try luring top talent by waving bonuses and extra cash. Those who forget to improve culture and workplace experience will see high turnover rates in the next 8-12 months because they hire people who aren’t a good fit. Essentially, there are two options to curb this: either companies invest in long-term leadership solutions or wait to see what happens if they don’t.

Wave 4: Kicking the Can Down the Field (2023)

Workforce reconfiguration is not only overdue—but necessary for the workplace of the future. Imagine this: 100+ million people switching jobs working in an atmosphere lighting them up, coworkers they want to be around, and an environment encouraging their best work. This Great Resignation (Reconfiguration) will create better, happier teams, parents, and spouses with more energy and fulfillment and better work from coast to coast.

This work futurist predicts new waves of worker unrest are on the horizon—especially as some companies press a return to the office.

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Why the Great Resignation is far from over

As a fairly new concept, the People Ops demand has boomed, with vacancies <a href="https://www.zenefits.com/workest/61-stats-about-people-operations-hr-the-workforce-remote-work-and-the-employee-experience-that-youll-definitely-want-to-know-if-youre-in-human-resources/">growing 6x faster</a> than their traditional HR equivalent. This is especially true for remote companies, where remote People Operations roles are actually the norm. People Operations teams are all about putting employees first. While many of the responsibilities cross over into traditional HR, People Ops focuses more broadly on maximizing employee effectiveness.

People Operations

<ul><li>Focusing their entire mission on employee satisfaction and performance. </li><li>Optimizing the entire employee journey, including onboarding and training.</li><li>Cultivating a great employer brand.</li><li>Attracting, evaluating, and hiring talent through optimized hiring processes.</li><li>Modernizing and automating functions such as payroll and recruitment.</li><li>Supporting employees day-to-day with areas such as benefits, company policies, and work/life balance.</li><li>Analyzing people metrics such as turnover rates, time to hire, and employee satisfaction to identify areas of improvement.</li></ul>

The Work Of People Operations

Traditional HR:<ul><li>Narrowly focuses on traditional HR topics such as pay, benefits, and recruitment.</li><li>Ensures employees work in a way that reduces the ‘people’ risk for the company.</li><li>Tells employees about key decisions and policy changes.</li></ul>People Operations:<ul><li>Takes a strategic and holistic view of the needs and performance of People.</li><li>Focused on making people happy, more productive, and more connected with the whole company.</li><li>Consults employees, co-creating key decisions and changes.</li></ul>

People Operations Vs HR

By taking a holistic people-focused approach, remote People Operations specialists help distributed teams overcome the following key challenges:<ul><li>Collaborating and coordinating work across time zones. </li><li>Providing clear and consistent guidance on communication, processes, and habits.</li><li>Fostering best-practice sharing between colleagues.</li><li>Polishing remote hiring processes to hire faster and more confidently.</li><li>Levelling the playing field for pay and benefits across different countries.</li><li>Enabling remote employees with the right technology. </li><li>Maintaining engagement with organizational objectives. </li></ul>

Importance Of People Ops In Remote Organizations: Overcoming Challenges

For remote companies, People Operations become the heartbeat of the business. By focusing on the people, their needs, and ultimately their satisfaction, remote People Operations teams have to create an amazing culture. We all know that feeling truly part of an organization is hard when you’re remote, as nothing quite helps you connect with your team like being in a room with them.

Creating an Amazing Culture

From a recruitment perspective, adopting a People Ops model inevitably leads to a much reduced time to hire. Bring together a fantastic employer brand (focused on putting people first), slick and efficient recruitment processes, and innovative hiring technology, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for rapid, high-quality recruitment. That helps optimize one of the critical recruitment KPIs, time-to-hire, slicing the time it takes to fill a vacancy when one becomes available.

Reducing Time-to-Hire

All of this comes together to improve employee effectiveness. People Ops teams listen to the challenges employees face and put their needs first when it comes to developing solutions. Feeling valued, prioritized, and cared for improves employee satisfaction and, ultimately, employee performance. People Ops managers focus all of their energy on ensuring key metrics such as employee satisfaction, churn rate, and workforce engagement are optimized.

Boosting Employee Effectiveness

Whether you’re hiring a People Ops specialist or looking to make the transition yourself, here are some of the skills and qualities needed to become a People Ops superstar!Collaboration: People Ops is all about co-creating a better way of working, so you need to be able to work well with others. Not only is this important to keep your people happy, but it’s also important to collaborate upward too. This ensures your strategic People Operations work aligns with the organization’s goals and objectives.

Skills or Qualities That Make a Great Remote People Ops Specialist: Collaboration

People Ops specialists need to be able to understand what makes people tick. They need compassion and empathy to understand the challenges employees face to accurately come up with solutions.

Emotional Intelligence

People Ops isn’t as reactive as traditional HR. Instead, People Ops leaders have to be able to tackle situations and come up with problems proactively. Especially for new and exciting remote companies, you may need to think outside the box, harnessing creativity and confidence to try something new.

People Ops is a results-driven business with success decided by key metrics such as employee satisfaction and churn rate. However your organization collects their data, you need to be an expert at analysis to fully understand it and turn it into actionable outputs.

Analytical Skills

Data shows that <a href="https://img.en25.com/Web/CPP/Conflict_report.pdf">85% of employees</a> experience workplace conflict in their lifetime. As a People Ops specialist, that conflict will come to your door, so you need to be able to manage and diffuse it as effectively as possible.

Conflict Resolution 

Fundamentally, People Ops jobs are no different from any other jobs – there are loads out there, you just need to know where to find them.But if you’re explicitly fishing in the remote market, you need to take your search to some particular places.AngelList – What began as a startup funding brand is now a leader in promoting jobs for newly formed companies, many of which have a remote-first mindset.VentureLoop – Closely linked with venture-backed companies, VentureLoop is a great place to find roles with newly funded and exciting companies.Other options: WeWorkRemotely, and Startupers.

Finding Remote People Ops Jobs

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