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By Alli Kelly
How You Offboard Matters. Here's a Template for Getting it Right.
Onboarding is one of the most important practices for your business. Bringing on a new employee is exciting and represents positive change. And the mo[...]

By Alli Kelly
Defining Success with Julie Menden
Success! You’ve reached the top of the mountain! You’ve submitted your taxes! You ate that entire cheeseburger! There are many things in life that hav[...]

By Alli Kelly
LinkedIn Learning Classes to Enhance Your Company Culture
The state of a company’s culture is one of the top 10 reasons an individual leaves an organization. No longer are the days when a paycheck and medical[...]

By Ryan Landau
7 Ways to Hire and Retain Talent in Uncertain Times
Hiring freezes, layoffs, venture slowdown . . . we’ve all seen the headlines, and yes, they’re pretty discouraging. No matter the climate or market o[...]

By Alli Kelly
How to Show Appreciation for Remote Employees
If you’re in a remote or even hybrid environment, you know that the days of donuts and coffee in the office are long gone. It was easy when we all spe[...]

By Alli Kelly
Where We Work: The Expansion of Remote & Hybrid Models
Since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020, employers all over the world have been working tirelessly to find the right environment for their em[...]

By Lauren Zyber
29 Company Retreat Ideas to Help your Remote Startup Team Connect
One of the biggest challenges for remote teams is finding the time and space to genuinely connect. In between all the startup hiring, there's of cours[...]

Three Changes You Can Make Today to Humanize Your Interview Process
In the hustle and bustle of scaling a company, hitting headcount deadlines, and keeping up with an email inbox that has no end, it can be easy for us [...]

By Lauren Zyber
How to Support Employee Mental Health & Avoid Startup Burnout
When it comes to finding the right job — and staying there — candidates are looking for a lot, especially in a virtual setting. Gone are the days wher[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Want Your Startup to Succeed? Invest in Your Mental Health
If you’re a startup founder, you know that building a company is tough work. From ideation to raising money, building a minimal viable product to scal[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
Thinking about purpose in 2022? Try this exercise.
"What is success for you? And how will you know when you have it?" These are among the first questions I ask founders when I work with them, and it t[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Discord community helps tech founders build authentic relationships
In a world that’s so connected, it can often be hard to feel, well, connected. This realization happened for Paul Jones when sitting at a conference, [...]

By Lauren Zyber
People Collective helps HR community navigate the new normal of work
When companies around the world were forced to go remote because of COVID-19, HR and people operations folks felt an enormous amount of pressure and w[...]

Employee Engagement Tips for Retaining Great Talent
In April, four million people (equivalent to 2.7% of the American workforce) quit their jobs—a record high since 2000. Now, as 41% of workers worldwid[...]

By Laura Cowan
7 mindfulness exercises to reduce stress at a tech job
Tech jobs can be hectic, and stress from the pandemic and non-stop work from home demands have 70% of tech workers reporting exhaustion. Tech workers [...]

By Lauren Zyber
Building resilience plus more mental well-being strategies for work
As we know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While this topic has always been important, the past year has only worsened the mental health crisis[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
Fear: The Startup Serial Killer Which Must Not Be Named
We don’t talk about fears in startups often, or well. But the unexamined and unreconciled fears of the entrepreneur (not to mention the leadership tea[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
The profound ROI on having fun
Entrepreneurs are artists that produce at scale. Beethoven used all twelve musical notes to compose his symphony number nine. Twelve tools, uniquely c[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
Why most 'culture work' actually hurts your company
And the simple way to ensure your culture eats strategy for lunch. A quick story to set the stage: About six years ago I scaled my company from 15-emp[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
The dark side of 'Crushing It': when looking good leads to bad results
This blog is adapted from a two-part examination of leadership, published on Second Mountain Startup. As entrepreneurs, we’re inherently vulnerable t[...]

By Ryan Vaughn
For leaders, meditation is more useful than business school
Meditation makes people better leaders, and when done consistently can be more effective than any knowledge on leadership one could acquire. Hard stop[...]