BUILDING

GREAT TEAMS

Armagan Amcalar

unu GmbH

 

HR in Tech Berlin #4
July 6th, 2017

Who am I?

Armagan Amcalar
Head of Software Engineering @ unu GmbH
Founder @ Lonca Works

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One key take away...

You don’t hire employees.

Employees hire you.

You even pay them to spend their time with you — you are the servant.

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The problem

 Turnover rates are too high

Employee tenure is too short

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Why does this happen?

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Few improvement opportunities

Repetitive tasks and daily chores

Team structure

Unfair hierarchy

Team spirit

Disbelief in change

Salary

How to tackle the problem?

Hire or grow strong leaders

Hire the right people

Look for hunger. What you need is not the ability to deliver, but the desire to grow

Look for a search of purpose, instead of a whiteboard interview

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The bottom line

Extrinsic motivation

vs.

Intrinsic motivation

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Designing a framework for success

Give people some purpose

Drive them with a clear vision

Live by your (ethics) code

Why should they work for you?

What is your unique value proposition?

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Best practices

 

Invest in your team members from day 1

Build up personal connections & trust

This is not a management problem, this is a human problem

If necessary, build up your inter-personal skills

Listen to your team members

Delegate responsibilities, let people take decisions

Build a scalable team infrastructure for re-kindling, re-sparking interest in team members by a change of position.

 

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How did we do it?

Repeatable success with free summer code camps

2 huge enterprise projects with rigid project structures

Software apprenticeship model

 

Team members will stay as long as they benefit from you. You are bound to deliver value to them.

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thank you!

Let's keep in touch!

Armagan Amcalar

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