Recently I hired someone new here at Canopy. Here’s exactly what I wrote on Day 1 and the 23 questions I asked as a part of our employee onboarding process as a remote company. Something new happened recently: We hired a new employee at Canopy — and it caused me to rethink our entire employee onboarding process.…
Interview with Nick Francis, CEO and Co-Founder of Help Scout
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Interview with Katica Roy, CEO and Founder of Pipeline
Being a great manager and English gardening have more in common than you might imagine. If you want to improve your leadership skills, there no shortage of analogies that have been made about great managers. A great manager is a “coach,” a “captain of a ship,” or even a “human shield.” However, I heard a…
If you’re looking for the best employee engagement survey questions, these 32 questions have the highest response rates in Canopy – and share four distinct characteristics. “How engaged are my employees, really?” We ask ourselves this, as leaders — and then write our employee engagement surveys questions, determined to find an answer. Yet during this process, we…
Interview with Sahil Lavingia, CEO and Founder of Gumroad
Here are the 5 most telling signs of micromanagement – and what you can do instead. I won’t tell anyone: You think you might be a micromanager. Argh. If there were scarlet letters for a bad manager to wear, “m-i-c-r-o-m-a-n-a-g-e-r” would be among them. But, how do you know if you’re a micromanager, for sure?…
Six things to consider when managing managers instead of individual contributors. “What’s the biggest difference between managing managers versus managing individual contributors?” I recently was asked this question at a conference I spoke at in the United Kingdom. Then a few days later, funnily enough, this same question was the central topic at a panel…
Interview with Bryce Roberts, Founder of Indie.vc, Co-Founder of OATV
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