In this wonderful podcast about enabling great teams to solve touch problems, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods speaks to Adam Sypniewski of Deepgram, a 6-year old start-up focused on speech recognition.
His recommendation mirrors what I have long championed- look to become an Employer-of-Choice. Or, in the words of Adam “Make your environment so interesting that great people find you, rather than you need to find them.”
How does he do that? He looks for the passion in peoples’ voice. And then feels it is up to him and his team to culture it, nurture it, let their passion grow and to give it the outlets that they’ve been promising.
He asks questions:
• What do you love to do?
• What do you want to focus on?
• Which one of our problems do you want to solve?
And through their answers he builds teams and tells them to go off and solve them.
For Sypniewski it’s about asking ‘Do you have the passion and love for your job, for high performance computing world in general, that if we dropped you here, would you be excited to figure out how to solve the problems? You’d be excited to orient yourself to the space.’” And he knows that building great teams is also about encouraging diversity and creativity.
This was an inspiring listen for anyone looking to hire or retain talent and build a culture of belonging in remote teams. Need more help? Reach out to Brandemix to build your talent brand.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jody Ordioni is the author of “The Talent Brand.” In her role as Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Brandemix, she leads the firm in creating brand-aligned talent communications that connect employees to cultures, companies, and business goals. She engages with HR professionals and corporate teams on how to build and promote talent brands, and implement best-practice talent acquisition and engagement strategies across all media and platforms. She has been named a "recruitment thought leader to follow" and her mission is to integrate marketing, human resources, internal communications, and social media to foster a seamless brand experience through the employee lifecycle.
