A collection of helpful resources and material
The following are PeopleOps and HR-related resources that we like. Feel free to check them out as we've been inspired by them and may actually use some of these strategies and methodologies to build the best company ever.
Table of Contents
- General HR, PeopleOps
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- Growing Culture
- Personal Development
- Leadership and Management
- Mentorship and Coaching
- Working Remote
- Team Dynamics
- Productivity
- Diversity, Inclusion, Family, Gender
- Health
- Internship Programs
- Cost of Poor Culture, Bad Org Health
- Services, Providers
- Getting Human Resources Right
- re:Work - Open Source HR via Google
- The Atlassian Team Playbook - A No-Bullshit Guide
- GitLab's Team Handbook
- Deloitte - Human Capital Trends 2017 - PDF
- MeetEdgar's Cultura Guide, Handbook
- People, Performance Management at Startups via HomeBrew VC
- Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact - Book here is great: The Alliance
- The Talent Playbook
- Legal Concepts for Founders
- Toward of Theory of Organizational Socialization." Research in Organizational Behavior
- Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard
- Building Your HR Early – Tools & Culture
- We Learn More When We Learn Together
- Organizational Design in Startups
- Gusto: Employee Handbook - PDF Download here.
- A Quick Guide to Stripe's Culture
- Know the soul of the high-performance employee
- Startup School Library - A ton of resources for all parts of the org.
- People as Vectors
- Using Slack to Interview
- How to Assess Emotional Intelligence During the Interview Process
- 5 More Lessons from Scaling Pinterest
- Paint Drip People
- Traits of exceptional engineers
- A better way to interview software engineers
- eShares - How We Hire
- Technical Interviews - Revised Process
- How Instacart Uses Data to Craft A Bespoke Comp Strategy
- Turbocharge Your Recruiting Machine — Here’s How
- Keep Interviewing and Nobody Explodes - WeWork uses games as part of the hiring process.
- Startup Recruiting Workbook: Sourcing and Interview
- A Primer for Startups and Job Seekers to BOTH Win the Talent War
- How to Interview Engineers
- Ask HN: How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Interview?
- Ensure the Survival of Creativity
- Equity Compensation
- How to Hire via HBR
- 29 Questions to Ask in a Reference Call
- Hire People Who Aren't Proven
- Hire for commitment, not fit
- Scaling Engineering Organizations - Stripe
- 30 Questions To Ask Before Joining A Startup
- Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you
- Employee Onboarding is Broken, Here's How to Fix It
- Onboarding Strategy for Startups
- Effective Onboarding Experience for Startups
- 9 Surprising Employee Onboarding Statistics
- Employee Turnover Because of Poor Onboarding
- 13 Questions to Maximize Onboarding Efforts
- How Not To Lose Your New Employees In Their First 45 Days
- The Cost of Hiring a New Employee
- How to Revamp Your Onboarding Process
- Lean Startup Guide to Employee Onboarding
- Improving the onboarding experience with Kimberly Bringas: Olark
- What are some common onboarding issues when a new employee starts work at a company?
- What are trends in onboarding millenials?
- Getting New Employees Off to a Good Start
- Onboarding and the Cost of Team Debt
- MIT Sloan: Reinventing Employee Onboarding
- Employee Onboarding Best Practices
- Onboarding New Employees with Trello
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Onboarding New Hires
- 12 Employee Onboarding Best Practices
- Extreme Onboarding: How to WOW Your New Hires Rather Than Numb Them
- The Only Onboarding Timeline You’ll Need: From Offer to First Friday
- Onboarding Best Practices: How the Smartest Companies Turn New Hires Into Great Employees
- How we dramatically improved 18F’s onboarding process in 3 months
- How Employee Onboarding can increase Productivity and decrease Turnover to create Profits
- Publicly Dogfooding Your Culture
- Developing a Culture of Organizational Trust
- 6 Things Remote Companies Must Do To Build Great Culture
- Pinning Culture - A share from our own archives.
- I'm a Woman in Tech and This is What I Want in a Company
- Lessons from 7 highly successful software engineering cultures
- Culture and Revolution
- Engineering Values: The Secret to Our Growth
- Clever Ways to Improve Culture
- This Culture Deck Powers the World’s Toughest Work
- The Best Culture Videos
- Why We’re Becoming More Mindful in Sharing Swag
- Uniqlo Boss: ‘Without a Soul, a Company is Nothing’
- What Our 3 Biggest Successes and 2 Biggest Failures Taught Us About Company Culture
- Anna Binder: How Asana Built SV's Leading Company Culture
- How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
- Company culture tips from Netflix, Zappos, Atlassian
- Making Culture a Tangible Metric
- 4 Part Framework: Changing Company Culture
- There Was a Reason
- Ownership - The Secret Ingredient
- Why Great Employees Leave "Great Cultures"
- Writing and Speaking
- Slack: How We Approach Professional Learning
- How to Say Sorry - Anatomoy of an Apology
- Internal Tech Conference Toolkit
- The best developer conference? Your own.
- Rate of Learning
- How to Give Feedback to Your Boss
- Go Slow to Go Fast
- You Know Enough to Give a Talk
- Decision Scheduling
- How to Teach Yourself Hard Things
- How System Thinking Can Level Up Your Work and Life
- How to Exhibit Leadership as an Individual Contributor
- Feedback is not a dirty word
- How to Measure Leadership
- How Screwed Am I? - Reddit proves some amazing context on how to handle someone messing up.
- Managers - Let Your Reports Fail
- Awkward 1:1s: The Art of Getting Honest Feedback
- 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - John has supporting material, ping him for it!
- How to Lead People and Be a Manager - An open Google Doc with a ton of resources.
- Radical Candor - How to Be a Good Boss - Another Good Post Here
- Running a Manager Feedback Cycle
- The New Manager Death Spiral
- Running an All-Hands
- What the Best Leaders Do - 10 Things
- Key Takeaways from CTO Unconference - Useful for non-technical leaders too.
- The Art of the Awkward 1:1
- How to Have an Honest 1:1
- Three Powerful Conversations Managers Must Have To Develop Their People
- 10 Senior Leadership Lessons I Wish I Learned Sooner
- The Boss You Don't Want to Be
- The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
- Google's New Manager Training Docs
- The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
- First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
- Our 6 Must Reads for Scaling Yourself as a Leader
- Buzzfeed's Leadership Principles
- How to be a Manager
- 3 Layers of Management
- The New Manager Death Spiral
- Patty McCord on Rethinking How We Manage People
- Founder to CEO - Google Doc, Coaching
- Welcome, New Managers: Complete Guide
- If you're thirsty, it's already too late
- Advice for the New (Technology) Executive
- Breaking Bad News
- 3 Postures of Leadership from an Adoptive Dad
- Do Leadership, Don't Learn It
- Engineering Management : Lessons learned in first year
- Leadership is your product, not your identity
- The Mentor Manifesto - Brad Feld's Breakdown here as well.
- Mentorship at Slack
- Docker Global Mentor Week
- Organizing Teams With Players and Coaches
- Employee Retention: How To Beat The Odds and Keep Your Best Employees Around Longer
- Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time
- a16z - On Mentors and Mentees (Podcast)
- Remote Only - Tons of resources and links
- An Engineering Manager’s Guide to the Future of Work
- How Our Remote Team Stays Aligned With ‘Town Hall’ Meetings
- Scaling A Distributed Team to 50+ Employees
- The Complete Guide to Working on a Remote Team
- The 6 Biggest Remote Work Problems We Need To Talk About
- 6 Rules To Live By When You Work In An Office But Have Remote Team Members
- How to Handle Conflict on Remote Teams
- How to Determine if Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment
- How to have a good relationship with your boss when you’re working remotely
- Autonomy Is the Biggest Reward Your Team Can Get
- Distributed Teams: Rewriting the Rules of Office Politics
- Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams (Video)
- What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
- What we learned from the most performing remote tech teams
- Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- How to Ask Good Questions
- Just Do As Expected
- The Utopica of a (Developer) - Useful for everyone, actually.
- Navigating Team Friction
- People and Teams as Vectors
- Giving Your Team Insight Into How A Decision Is Made Is Just As Important As The Decision Itself
- Completing This 30-minute Exercise Makes Teams Less Anxious And More Productive: Sharing Your User Manual
- The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data
- The Most Obvious Question
- Ask HN: Women in Tech, How Do You Find Non-Toxic Work Environments?
- Being an Effective Ally to Women and Non-Binary People
- Family Planning While Working at a Startup
- Startup School: D&I at Early Stage Companies
- How Blind Hiring Can Make Your Company More Inclusive
- Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationships at Work
- The family-friendly startup is possible. Here’s how you build one.
- Project: Include
- Mom, Why Did You Create a Startup?
- The One Startup Debt You Can't Pay Back
- Sexual Harassment: A Better Path to Decency
- The Human Rights of Women
- Atlassian Boosted Its Female Technical Hires By 80% — Here’s How
- Diversity Debt: How Much Does Your Startup Have?
- A Diversity Guide for Startups and Scaleups - PDF
- Diversity and Inclusion @ Helpscout - What Gets Measured
- Collection of Resources for Underrepresented People in Tech
- Open Sourcing Mental Illness
- Trickle-Down Workaholism in Startups
- How to Avoid Burnout
- Reboot.io Podcast
- Suicide and Depression in Startups
- Founders and Depression
- Startups and Depression - Big List of Resources and Links
- eMindful - Accountable Wellness Program
- Every Company SHould Offer Mental Health Days
- Team Health Monitors and Why Your Startup Needs a Check-up
- Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
- HumanOps
- Engineering a Culture of Psychological Safety
- Google HR boss explains the only 2 ways to keep your best people from quitting
- Building ethnical environments for people
- How much does employee turnover really cost?
- People leave managers, not companies. Don’t let that manager be you.
- Onboarding Stats You Need to Know
- The Unexpected Challenge of Unlimited Vacation Time
- 11 Questions to Ask: Disengaged Employee?
The following is a list of technology, consulting, and product / service companies that may be useful for our organization.
- Know Your Company
- Start with Lucy - Prenatal and Postpartum Support
- ParadigmIQ - Assessing Diversity and Inclusion
- Handshake - Internship Marketplace
- Understand Better - Engagement Platform powered by AI
- LatticeHQ - Performance Management for Growing Companies
- Glint - People Success Platform
- Zugata - Holistic Peformance Management
- BetterUp - Coaching
- HazelHQ - Engaging Teams
- Skore - Team's Knowledgebase
- Reflektive - Performance Management
- StackOverflow Developer Payscale, Calculator
- Steer - Remote Team Happiness
- HeyTaco!
- Bonusly - Employee Recognition
- Suggestion Sam
- 15Five
- Polly.ai - Slack Polls
- Impraise - Continous Feedback
- Culture Amp
- Small Improvements
- Checkr - Background Checks
- eShares - Cap Table, Equity Management
- Guru
- CultureIQ
- Kin HR
- Charlie HR
- Tiny Pulse
- Continu - Learning Platform
- TeamBit
- 7Geese
- People.ai
- Peakon
- Populate.io
- GoHire
- Greenhouse.io
- Workable
- Lever
- Breezy HR
- Asana - Learn how to hire free tool.
- Trello - Free Boards to try for HR teams.
- OnboardIQ
- JazzHR