innnovative ways to staff your startups

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Innovative Ways to Staff Your Start-Up

2012Sairee Chahal


Staffing for Start-Ups

Staffing is the last piece of the hiring puzzle



Start-Ups have no staff

They have believers, doers, foot soldiers and problem solvers

- all rolled in one!



And they are not found in the market-place



The fact that you need to hire means – you are seeding an

institution & it is not about YOU anymore!


Start-Up

An entrepreneurial organization formed to search for a

repeatable and scalable business model

Blank, Steve (March 5, 2012). "Search versus Execute". Retrieved July 22, 2012


Constraints

• Money• Time• New skill on the block• Brand• Uncertainty



Advantages

• Agility• Openness• Opportunity• Flexibility• Innovation



Why Start-Ups

HopeContribute

CreateRelationshipsFit /Format MEANING!


Entrepreneur Side Story

• Operational uphill• Personal style + motivation• Management style (or the lack of it)• Living in uncertainty• Communication patterns• Personal growth• Who do you reach out for help?


What’s Shaping Work?

Society

Business Environment

MindspaceTechnology

Demographics,Family structure,Mobility

Demographics,Family structure,Mobility

Impact on sensibilities, responses, key issues, culture

Impact on sensibilities, responses, key issues, culture

Technologies, communications, social networks supporting work eco-system

Technologies, communications, social networks supporting work eco-system

Decision making, geo politics, ownership of resources

Decision making, geo politics, ownership of resources


Key Trends

• Globalization: Global access to markets, technology and talent reshaping businesses

• Demographics: 5 generations working together, diversity and inclusivity

• Social Web: How we communicate, consume and share impact on employees, customers, and partners


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Is work changing?

Work is something you do and not someplace you go to


ROWE


The New Currency

Cannot Park, Cannot Replace


Skills @Work


Hiring Strategy

• SKILL

• FIT

• FORMAT

• STAGE


Hiring Strategy

Change is way of life for you nowIntrospection is inevitable

Reflect and recognizeACT

Your business success or failure are not a reflection of you!


India: in Context

• 20 years– 6 Governments– 5 Prime Ministers

ONE DIRECTION

6-8 Percent Annual Average GDP Growth


Talent – Sellers Market?

• Job Hoppers Market – Naukri, IIMJobs - counter-offer culture

• Early or late stage workforce – interns, senior consultant

• Alternate workforce – women, defense, differently-abled


Work Formats

• Part time• Telecommute / Work from home• Contract• Project• Full time flex / Part Flex / Core team flex• SOHO• Franchising / SMB / Freelance


Process

• What does work look like? – Modularity + Clarity + Story

• Delivery• Reporting• Infrastructure• Payment • Expectation + Communication


HR Perspective

• Attracting and retaining talented people• Organizational capability for ROWE • Leadership skills• Managing workforce diversity • Talent management of multi generational

workforce• Training in technology


HR Perspective

• Information movement fast• Outsourcing of HR duties to rise • Multi-disciplined, multi-skilled

administrators and leaders


Management Perspective

• Cutting-edge technology; • Rewards and incentives with immediate payout; • Two-way frequent feedback• Collaborative decision making• Work to accommodate personal and family life• Manage by getting involved


Workflex

• Workflex is harder. Workflex is more rewarding

“ Carefully managing our resources and constantly reviewing and challenging what

we do and the way we operate”


Multiple Ingredients


Fresh Air = Diversity

• Reflection of the world we live in and respond to

• Heterogeneous views, creativity and talent• Adaptive vs Non-adaptive cultures• Impact on bottom-lines and products

Business Case for Inclusion and Engagement. By Marcus Robinson, Charles Pfeffer, and Joan Buccigrossi, (2003). wetWare, Inc. Rochester, NY.


Women and Workplace

• Women = Primary caregivers - India = highest number of women grads

• Over 30 million dropouts. Over 70% of women professionals take career breaks, opt out or never start their careers

• Urban, Educated, Experienced, Credible.


Strength from Flex

Flexibility is one of the most important aspects of being a

competitive employer

Kerrie Peraino, Senior Vice President, International Human Resources at American Express


Mindset over Matter

In the networked environment, the mindset and disposition of workers will matter more than

ever- John Seely Brown


Future Belongs to?

The future may belong less to firms organized as hierarchies than to participants in open,

networked platforms


About Fleximoms

India’s first Workflex Readiness Specialist

Allow customers to successfully adopt Workflex as a value

driver


About Fleximoms

• Facilitating women professionals in making suitable work-life choices and connecting them to the world of work

• Providing off-the shelf and customized Workflex readiness solutions to businesses

• Growing a platform for conversations about women, work and workflex.


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