Let's work on Human Relations (HR) strategy with HR expert Joseph Hajj.
In this activity, you will learn more about the fundamental pillars of HR needed for a healthy, happy work environment. 😄
Think about these questions as you watch the video and review the External Resources:
🌻 What are the main pillars of HR?
🌻 Why is it important for small companies to have HR strategies?
🌻 Does your company have a clear HR strategy? If not, what is the next step?
In this activity, Joseph will guide you through the necessary policies in the pre-employment, employment, and post-employment phases.
As you watch the video and read the External Resources, keep these questions in mind:
🌻 How do HR policies impact the functioning of your organization?
🌻 What are the different types of HR policies that are necessary for a healthy workplace?
🌻 What is something that surprises you? Anything you hadn't thought of before?
Take notes! Reflecting on this material will help you build a strong HR foundation ⚒️
In this activity, Joseph will guide you through the different stages of the talent acquisition (hiring) process, from identifying the need for a new employee to the on-boarding process.
As you watch the video and explore the External Resources, think about what your company's next employee will experience:
🌻 What is our current acquisition process? Is it clear?
🌻 If you were a new employee, what would you need in order to feel welcomed and valued in your company?
🌱 In this activity, Giordano Dichter introduces you to the foundation of the work to be done and the change needed to build your accelerator's sustainability plan.
Some of the topics discussed in this activity include:
🌻 The accelerator's business model challenges and limitations
🌻 The need for diversification
🌻 The target user and the strong suit
🌻 The Ecosystem mapping
While you watch the video, think about the following questions:
🤔 Who are your target users? Who are the (potential) entrepreneurs you are trying to help?
🤔 What is your strong suit with respect to your peers? What is your differentiation factor (the one thing you are good at)?
🤔 What is your ecosystem looking like, and who could be interested in funding your operations?
📈 This activity will help you understand your sustainability issues and quantify your expenses and revenue sources.
Some of the topics discussed in this activity include:
🌻 Identifying the level of urgency associated with sustainability issues (the financial gap and runway).
🌻 Applying a methodology to mitigate the financial gap and lengthen the runway.
🌻 The current, ideal, and contextualized revenue streams and their impact on sustainability.
🌴Welcome to the last training activity of the accelerator sustainability module. Now you have gone very far in understanding how to develop a sustainability plan that will help you in the long term diversify your revenue streams and make it possible for your accelerator to become an independent and sustainable organization.
One last step remaining is validation.
This activity discusses a validation methodology to ensure that your chosen path has the highest chance of success.
☀️ Welcome to this introductory session about Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), delivered by business professional Tom Strodtbeck.
In this session, you'll be introduced to:
🌻The Components of KPIs
🌻The alternative methods of establishing and tracking organizational goals
Always remember what Peter Drucker once said: "What gets measured gets managed" 📊
In this session, Tom Strodtbeck discusses the definition of an accelerator and the challenges and opportunities in benchmarking accelerator KPIs, with references to various data sources an accelerator might access. 📈
In this session, Tom Strodtbeck examines the various metrics an accelerator might track.
By the end of this training activity, you'll learn about:
🌻 How to create and track KPIs
🌻 Various examples of accelerators' KPIs
🌻 How to establish a KPI Plan
This first activity of covers people operations for your program 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏻
This video will cover the following topics:
🌻 The things that motivate different types of members of accelerator teams and how to assess if you can add activities to ensure that your team is well motivated to achieve the company goals.
🌻 The company goals, the KPIs used to measure them, and how to ensure that each is well looked after by well-assigned and communicated responsibilities.
🌻 How to use this knowledge as you make changes to your program so that responsibilities and people are updated effectively.
Let's get started!