Growing Your Team From 30 To 100 People During A Pandemic Year | Kevin Valencia and Laure Saintpierre of Livestorm | Episode 4

If you’ve had to onboard remotely or shift your culture with everyone working from home, you’ll know the challenges. Now imagine you’re doing all of that while growing your team from 30 to 100 people? That’s the journey Kevin Valencia and Laure Saintpierre of Livestorm have been on over the past year. If you’re asking yourself questions like this then it’s absolutely the episode for you! How can you tweak your culture so that remote employees can work flexibly, effectively and still disconnect? What would your approach be to finding the right people fast and onboarding them at scale? And how would you manage time zones, learning and all your remote socials? Laure also told us about her role as Happiness Officer and what that means for their employees, Kevin discussed how you can create an employer brand that stands out and we spoke about a whole lot more. Running order 0:00 Introduction 1:51 Growing from a team of 30 to 100 in a year. 3:00 How to recruit good people fast. 4:20 How Livestorm define their culture and hire people who fit it. 6.50 Creating awareness of and tackling unconscious bias. 8.18 What onboarding looks like when you’re growing at speed. 12:12 What did and didn’t work in terms of remote onboarding. 13:57 How do you work across time zones and adjust to being remote? 17.04 What challenges have you faced moving to asynchronous learning? 20.55 Benefits of asynchronous learning. 24:45 What does a Happiness Officer do? 29.04 Can you still build a culture remotely? 33:35 How did you come up with your values? 36:48 How did you create an employer brand that stands out? 41:12 Quickfire questions. How to connect Find Livestorm on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/livestorm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/livestormapp Their website: https://livestorm.co/ Find Kevin and Laure on LinkedIn: Kevin Valencia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-valencia-hr/ Laure Saintpierre: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laure-saintpierre/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: http://instagram.com/hownowhq Our Website: http://gethownow.com/