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Are we a lean, highly-skilled team? Or are we building a business that is highly distributed, high-volume, and low-barrier to entry?It’s crucial to understand the product you’re building, and it is just as important to understand how to build and design an organisation that compliments your product strategy.

Organisational Design Principles Workshop

We'll help you to transform your people team impact by taking the best elements of a product management approach

Jessica Zwaan

COO @ Whereby and Startup Advisor - People / Commercial / Legal

Built for People - People Ops as a Product

Consultant

Sr. People Success Partner

Head of People & EX

People and Culture Lead

Senior Manager, People & Culture 

Chief People Officer

Head of People Operations

Talent lead 

Head of People

The old way of doing People Ops is slowing you down and leading to poor outcomes. You're relying on centres of excellence, or launching another engagement survey that feels, well, disengaged. Instead - you should be solving problems and having impact. Every business has three products they are building: A customer facing product, a investor facing product, and a people facing product. Approaching your people product with the rigor and practice of a product management team, and you will start to see results. Join us to learn a new approach to make this far easier, in a clear and practical way.

Companies are made of people, and getting the people work done right is HARD

Course syllabus

Every Week

We'll dive into the thick of it and give you the chance to work with your peers to build towards your roadmap and plan.

1x Core Session - Practical Workshop

Our cohort leaders will dive into the theory, along with open discussion and shared experiences, based on the async recordings.

1x Optional Session - Theory and discussion - AMA

Throughout the course

We'll dive into the theory behind the work in our recordings, giving us much more space for the discussion and practical sessions

Async Theory Video

Our course leaders, Jessica and Matt, will be hosting 1:1 sessions and mentoring throughout. Each member of the cohort will have at least one 1:1 during the program.

Course mentoring

Course schedule

Experienced People Leaders who want to transform their approach. From Head of to CPO.

People Partners or HRBPs, who want to learn more about a much more innovative approach

Founders, Execs or COOs who want to learn about how to build a modern people function

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

<ul><li>We'll help you rip off the bandaid, and learn a method which enables you to be well ahead of the crowd.</li></ul>

A revolutionary and practical approach to People Ops

<ul><li>We have designed this course so that you can build your people ops org in a way to have maximum impact on the people product of your business. Taking your approach from administrative to deeply commercial.</li><li>Your CEO, investors, and team will love it 🙌</li></ul>

The ability to have a far greater impact in your role.

<ul><li>Jessica poured her heart into writing "Built for People" where she outlines the methodology and approach to 'People Ops as a Product' and this is your chance to put those learnings into practise alongside your peers.</li></ul>

A chance to go beyond the book

<ul><li>We know folks have had a brutal time of it recently, and we believe this approach will refresh and renew things for those where it's gotten stale.</li></ul>

A renewed love for your work in People Ops

<ul><li>We want you leaving this course, not just with a new mindset, but the actual plan to put it into action. Oh, and hopefully a few new friends to boot ✨</li></ul>

A fully formed roadmap and business case for your company

You'll be added to our People as a Product Slack group and have the chance to learn and share with folks in current and past cohorts.

A community of people geeks

The key principles of People Ops as a Product

Chief Operating Officer and Author of Built for People

Learn to run your people ops more effectively by applying core product management principles

Get to know the principles of People Operations as a Product

Measure the impact of your people initiatives and spend, instead of using input metrics or worrying about "busy work"

Metrics for success and thinking about outputs

Explore a specific example of ELTV Payback (Employee Lifetime Value) and how it works in practice with real  examples

Learn directly from Built for People

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Built for People - People Ops as a Product

Lightning Lessons

The key principles of People Ops as a Product

Resources

Organisational Design Principles Workshop