Employee Related Topics 
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 21, 2025
Forward-thinking companies champion models that facilitate open dialogue between employees and supervisors, ensuring that performance conversations align with personal career aspirations and the organization’s strategic goals. One of the most immediate benefits is a notable increase in employee engagement and satisfaction.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 6, 2021
Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals.
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The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 5, 2025
Invest in Employee Development Your team is one of your most valuable assets. Investing in employee development is not only going to boost their morale but also enhance their skills and productivity at the same time. The most high impact areas in any business are usually marketing, employee training and product development.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 23, 2021
Yet, as a business consultant, I often find minimal focus on improving employee engagement and assessing their customer-facing performance. For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In my experience as an employee, up to an executive, in large companies as well as small, I’ve found that people who are consistently negative and complain are a big constraint on productivity, as well as the most difficult management problem that most business leaders face. They may really want to change.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2022
Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. This commitment to hire people who think like entrepreneurs, or instill an “owner’s mindset” in every employee, should be a high priority in every business.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 22, 2020
One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Calculate employee stock option values and vesting times, as well as salary. These questions are the key ones in every due diligence effort, always done by accredited investors, but almost never done by key employees and new partners.
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