How to Successfully Grow a United Global Team Presented by Jeff Diana Bart Macdonald Has your organization made the decision to grow globally, or is it on your roadmap? Much of the success of a company’s global expansion falls on the shoulders of their People Operations team. Join Jeff Diana, previously CPO at SuccessFactors and then Atlassian, for an informative discussion on how his team successfully built a unified organization during their hyper global growth. In this webinar you’ll learn: - How to build effective working relationships with teams around the world - How purpose-built rituals are crucial to success - How to plan your global growth with a long term vision - How to utilize technology to support your objectives

1. How to Build a Unified Team
During Global Growth
Jeff Diana & Bart Macdonald

2. ● Speaker Introductions
● Hashtag
● Share your questions
Housekeeping
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3. Speaker Introduction
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Bart Macdonald
Founder & CEO
Sapling
Jeff Diana
High Growth Consultant +
Board Advisor
Previously CPO at Atlassian

4. Teams are growing globally. Why?
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5. Diverse
expertise
Varied work
experience
Varied
Budgets
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6. Distrust?Regulatory
challenge
Difficult
communication
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7. Ask the right questions and self evaluate...
...before bringing major change into your life
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8. Critical Considerations
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Cost Structure
Customer Penetration
Talent Pipeline
Time Overlap
Cultural Elements
Personal Preference

9. Mission
Our Long Term Purpose:
The impact on the
world we are pursuing
Vision 20/20
3 Year Painted Picture:
Aspirations for ourselves
& our stakeholders
Values
Guiding Beliefs:
What we stand for &
how we work together
+ +
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10. How do you build effective
long distance work relationships?
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11. Choose the
right leaders
Invest in
traveling
Celebrate
culture
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12. How do you build rituals that unite teams?
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13. Painted
Picture
Events ShipIt
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14. How do you utilize technology to
unify and support your organization's global growth?
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15. Facilitate real-time
communication
Leverage an
intranet
Design-led user
experiences
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16. Final Thoughts
● Decide on the mission and vision clearly beforehand.
● Invest in relationships.
● Build rituals.
● Utilize the right tech.
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17. Q & A
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18. 3 tips to support your global growth
1. Best of Breed Core HR allows People Operations to be
efficient at scale, connecting with your favorite
HR/IT/Finance Tools.
2. Onboarding is different with each location and department,
you have the flexibility to customize different onboarding
workflows to fit those needs.
3. Drive transparency, visibility and engagement across teams
with a dynamic org chart.

19. Thank you for joining us!
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