Retool communication. The original group of people still meets with me personally, and I meet with the management group, but there are a lot of people now that work here that I don’t know and don’t really communicate with other than my corporate messaging. I do internal videos where I reach out to the company and tell them what are we doing, what are the successes or we’re having some workshops internally, so sign up. I keep them in tune. It’s kind of like an internal YouTube. It enables them to see me if they don’t see me because I travel quite a bit and I’m on a different side of the building now.
Hire people with initiative. We’re an entrepreneurial company at heart, so we want the people that come here to be the best that they can be and we want them to understand that we need them to help us grow and add structure to what we’re doing. Self-initiative and self-responsibility is really important for us. We’re looking for people that can say, ‘I have the skill set, but I’m also honest enough to know that I might not be able to do this job,’ or have the self-responsibility to say, ‘I don’t know how to do that, but I’m going to learn how to do it.’
Focus on your vision. Motivation has a lot to do with the passion we have for our product and what we’re doing. I think employees are motivated by the fact that they are responsible. They can see they are making a difference, and we talk about how they make a difference and how we as a company are making a difference; I think that jazzes people.
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