Building Organizations to Scale Effectively
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Julia Austin provides advice on scaling organizations. She discusses tools for thinking about how to scale a startup, including assessing the current performance baseline, structure, number of employees, and direction. Her tips address common challenges like skills mismatches within teams, retaining top talent, decision making processes, and accountability as a company grows. Austin also offers guidance on developing mentors and coaches, attracting new talent, fostering innovation, and investing in people and culture as organizations expand their reach globally.
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Building Organizations to Scale Effectively
- 1. Building Organizations to Scale Julia Austin Startup Advisor and Coach julia@austinfish.com | @austinfish
- 2. 3 A little bit about me...
- 3. Goals Today • Tools to think about how you want to scale • Tips and Tricks for tuning your organization
- 4. Performance
- 5. Baseline Structure, Number of People, Where are you headed?
- 7. Have to Do
- 8. Want to Do
- 9. Good At
- 10. Retaining Talent
- 11. The System vs. The Person
- 12. Going Global
- 13. Decision Making
- 14. Accountability
- 15. Mentors, Coaches, Advocates & Allies • You • Your team members • Your project(s) • Your company
- 18. Faces, Spaces and Places
- 20. A Final Note
Editor's Notes
- Output and velocity
- Where are you headed? Who’s on the bench? Skills Personalities Experience
- Early on lots of things just have to get done – are all the right people working on the right stuff?
- What people have to do doesn’t always line up with what they want to do
- Just because someone is good at something, doesn’t mean it’s what it’s what they want to do It is what has to get done
- Roles change More process/red tape Startup culture shifts to “corporate”
- Symptom of growth vs. a bad hire Manager vs. IC Compassion Feedback
- Group discussion & consensus early on As you scale, more getting input and making a call
- Victim vs. Owning it Lines get unclear
- These people don’t exist!
- Create opportunities to innovate Hackathons Lunch and learns Conferences “science fairs”
- Protect and invest