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Sauna Talks22. OKR - Objective Key ResultsHave you heard about OKRs?
If you heard about it, you are in the right place to explore the topic even further.
If not - it is worth your while, as the goal-setting skills are as challenging as they are fundamental. Even more so is the ability to measure how efficiently these goals have been completed.
So today I’m going to talk about setting and monitoring goals using the OKR methodology.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunatalks/message2022-12-1512 min
Sauna Talks21. 1:1 MeetingsHave you ever wondered what we – managers – should care about most?
Preparing for this podcast, I’ve asked this question to myself and some other managers. Most opinions come down to such things as: getting tangible/solid/measurable results from our work, achieving our goals and developing our organizations.
Naturally, that is what most of us want and what we aim for. But sometimes we don’t realize how important is the way how we will actually get there. The things that need to happen to achieve our goals.
And when they are actually...2022-11-0812 min
Sauna Talks20. Team CommunicationOur focus today will be communicating in a team – one of the key issues for a growing company. It is quite a broad topic, so I’d like to share just a few ideas that may help make a rapid and radical improvement in your team communication.
To begin with, you may have heard about the synchronous and asynchronous modes of team communication.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunatalks/message2022-10-1110 min
Sauna Talks19. Employee Termination CostsWelcome to today’s episode, devoted to the costs of terminating an employment contract. As it is commonly assumed, the employee dismissal costs are equal to the costs of recruiting a replacement. In this podcast, I am going to explain why this approach is so very incorrect. A closer look at the key aspects of the firing-to-hiring process may actually prove it is a trouble in disguise. We might be losing a lot more than we initially thought.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunatalks/message2022-08-1608 min
Sauna Talks18. Equity participation - healthy table capLet’s have a look at the structure of equity participation in a company and its changes in time. When seeking external investment at the early stage of business growth, founding teams often have to decide what share of their business should be sold to investors.
To help you answer this question, I can offer my experience from both sides of such contracts. I have been involved both in acquiring funds and investing. For companies such as Morizon, AirHelp or Saunowy Staw, the total amount I acquired in all investment rounds was several tens of millions of Po...2022-07-0716 min
Sauna Talks17. Structure changes in a fast growing organizationsThis episode is recorded on request, as a follow-up to the survey posted on the “Startup Talks” group on Facebook, asking what topic you would like to hear about next. Some dozen people responded to the survey, having chosen the topics proposed there or adding their own ideas. It turned out, that the most wanted topic was the changes in the organizational structure in a fast-growing company. I’m glad this was your choice, because the structure transformation is one of the hardest processes that founders of small companies must face.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcas...2022-06-0310 min
Sauna Talks16. Ask for adviceIn today’s podcast, let’s focus on asking for advice and building relationships between those who ask and those who give advice. An attitude that I often come across, especially among the founders of new businesses (where there are no fully-developed sales processes or competencies), is that asking for advice is a sign of weakness. Since we are asking, we can’t be fully professional, our product or service must be incomplete and that’s why we have to ask others how things should work.
In this short talk, I would like to share my views on this...2022-05-0408 min
Rozmowy Saunowe34. Nowy Jednominutowy ManagerJeśli chcesz poznać bardzo dobry system zarządzania i relacji managerskiej, delegowania i motywowania pracowników - posłuchaj odcinka, w którym Natalia Laskowska i Bolek Drapella omawiają krótką i bardzo 'lekkostrawną', a jednocześnie bardzo kaloryczną książkę Kena Blancharda oraz Spencera Johnsona - Nowy Jednominutowy Manager.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunagrow/message2022-03-2218 min
Sauna Talks15. The Depths of PhilanthropyIn today’s episode I’d like to talk about something that personally matters to me a lot – charity. In the business jargon, it is known as CSR – being Corporate Social Responsibility. Some people refer to it using a more sophisticated term - philanthropy. In fact, philanthropy denotes a more general personal and social commitment of which charity is a practical manifestation.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunatalks/message2022-01-2407 min
Sauna Talks14. Setting GoalsIn this episode we’re going to think about setting business goals. Unlike lots of previous podcasts, this one wasn’t inspired by one or a few SaunaGrow mentoring sessions. Its idea came from an exciting LinkedIn discussion, started by Marcin Majchrzak of Harmony Team. One of the questions that Marcin asked was: What is the optimal number of sales meetings his sales team should carry out? To give an answer, the respondents – trainers, male and female leaders and sales experts – were first given company parameters, its industry and salesman’s job description. The debate that followed had a few unexpe...2022-01-1314 min
Sauna Talks13. Financing your businessIn this episode, I’d like us to think about ways of financing a startup – how to raise funds to kick off and then develop a business. These are common questions on Facebook groups as well as at meetings with entrepreneurs at various stages of business growth. They concern those who are just planning to start a business as well as those whose ideas and decisions have been verified by their first achievements. They also accompany the managements of well-established companies who are beginning to realize it’s time to consider new forms of financing to introduce new products to new...2021-06-2124 min
Rozmowy Saunowe29. Spotkania 1-1 - jak i po co rozmawiać z pracownikiem?Dlaczego i w jaki sposób jako managerowie powinniśmy rozmawiać z pracownikami? Posłuchaj tego odcinka aby poznać sekrety budowania motywacji i zwiększania efektywności pracowników przez właściwe zbudowanie relacji na linii manager-podwładny. Natalia Laskowska w tym epizodzie opowiada o tym na co zwrócić uwagę przy spotkaniach jeden na jeden, czemu one tak naprawdę służą. Czy na pewno robisz to właściwie?
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunagrow/message2021-03-2412 min
Rozmowy Saunowe28. OKR - mądre zarządzanie przez cele - Natalia LaskowskaObjective Key Results - odcinek, w którym Natalia Laskowska, mentor SaunaGrow.com wyjaśnia czym jest zarządzanie przez cele w oparciu o narzędzie OKR, czyli Cele i Kluczowe Rezultaty. Doskonałe narzędzie używane w firmach takich jak Google, Booking-com, Allegro czy OLX, zdecydowanie najbardziej popularne wśród nowoczesnych firm, również z uwagi na swoją prostotę i walory wspierające komunikację wewnętrzna w szybko rosnących firmach.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunagrow/message2021-03-0915 min
Sauna Talks12. Data-driven decision makingIn today’s business, the way decisions are reached is tremendously important. Let’s try and look into the process in our heads, teams, and the whole organization that leads to making these mature choices, often strategic for the company growth.
Recently, more and more has been said that business decisions should be supported by data. The English phrase, data-driven, suggests that they should be almost led or propelled by data. This has become more than just a slogan, especially in the Internet-based or, more widely, the Internet-related tech businesses, that often deal with massive amounts of data...2021-01-2713 min
Sauna Talks11. Don't rush your automationToday, let’s have a look at automation of processes, actions, production or any other sector of your company activity. It is receiving lots of attention in conference presentations and lobby conversations. I think it is one of the most popular and trending topics of the emerging new business reality. Such terms as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning appear in almost every investment presentations of ambitious startups and fast growers.
Many of such founders hope to create unicorns that aim for the world. In most cases, they proudly flash these key words in front of their potential inv...2021-01-1313 min
Sauna Talks10. When a little 's' can make a big difference. Meet: Glenn AuerbachThere is a very well-known drama when two women meet at the party wearing the same dress… what worse could have happened? How come, that it’s so much different with men? That’s one of the wonders of diversity I’ve touched upon in my last episode. Today it’s going to be different. Longer episode than usual, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. When I’ve recently googled the name of my Sauna Talks podcast I’ve, by an accident, mistyped it forgetting the final ‘s’. That’s how I’ve found Glen from Minnesota, US. Sauna lover, builder a...2020-12-301h 05
Sauna Talks9. Multitude of ideas - how to handle prioritiesToday’s topic is resources, but not the ones your HR might deal with. Let’s think about the resources understood as ideas, a multitude of ideas that keep streaming into your company from various directions. You and your team have to plan out how to contain and process this potential in your monthly or quarterly perspective. These ideas most often originate from your present or potential customers, your friends, you and your team, your superiors or leaders (presidents, CEOs, investors) or even your customer who is your ultimate boss. Usually, there are far more ideas than implementation options. List...2020-12-1616 min
Sauna Talks8. Diversity - why should we care?I’d like to reflect on a trendy topic of diversity. Recently, I was asked by a journalist about what I think is missing in the Polish startup ecosystem. The interview led to a heated debate on various startup groups. As I have pointed out, diversity is one of the key criteria that highlights the shortcomings of both the Polish startups and grown up companies. Something that may block them on their way to be growing internationally. In my view, some debaters’ comments in the “Startup Talks” group, show the shortage of diversity or the difficulty in understanding the need of...2020-12-0213 min
Sauna Talks7. BalanceIn today’s podcast, let’s give some thought to the concept of balance. Just like harmony in nature or grace in gymnastics, balance is something worth fighting for in all aspects of life. It’s not just about our job, our professional life or how we get by in our business environment. It’s about us as a whole, would you agree? What we are as managers or entrepreneurs, is not just what we do from nine to five (well, when we start our business these hours look a bit more hectic, right?). The way we are at work is...2020-11-1812 min
Sauna Talks6. Assumptions & intentionsIn today’s podcast, let’s focus on assumptions. I don’t mean creating or laying out assumptions for a business plan or a personal project. What I mean here are positive assumptions – assuming someone’s positive intent and steering clear of making negative suppositions, that certain things have happened or will happen, even though they have never taken place or nobody has let us down yet.
Read & listen more on https://www.saunagrow.com/podcast/
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunatalks/message2020-11-0412 min
Sauna Talks5. Managing People OutA lot can be said about the essence of good employment policies and conscious team-building. However, it happens once in a while, that someone, for various reasons, does not fit in the team. This is what I’d like to focus on today: the management of the people who leave the team – the employee attrition.
Why this topic? It has emerged a few times during the SAUNAGROW business mentoring sessions. I‘ve also witnessed employee loss in the places I’ve worked at, in AIRHELP, MORIZON and GRATKA, where the negative events and reactions, mostly linked both with sof...2020-10-2117 min
Sauna Talks4. F.U.E.L. - for challenging conversationsIn this episode I’d like to share a phenomenal tool, that I had the opportunity to use at AirHelp and some other places. I find it useful in a lot of areas; it doesn’t require any expenses, installation work or hardware – yet it can change your life. The tool I’m talking about is FUEL. The spelling might suggest diesel or gasoline, but it’s an acronym that I’m going to explain a minute.
I think the human life hardly ever needs to be outlined or follow fixed action patterns. In most cases, when we decide to follow a fix...2020-10-1410 min
Sauna Talks3. Corporate PurposeHi, in this talk I’d like us to consider why a company’s strategy, the purpose of its existence, is so vital and how essential is the way we communicate it to our employees, these who are not in the group of founders of the organization. I wrote an article about it in the SaunaGrow blog. When I posted its link on Facebook’s “Start-up Talks”, an interesting debate broke out between what you can call two worlds – the first one of the people with the experience of being team and staff members at various companies, where I think the co...2020-10-0707 min
Sauna Talks2. Find your counterpart in another organizationIn your professional life, do you happen to get these moments of doubt, feeling helpless, because the things you do, or are doing, are not done the way you want, because you need some kind of backing, but it is a bit hard to find in your company, your work environment?
No matter if you run your own firm, are a team member in an organization or a freelance specialist that no-one reports to, you may get that sensation that something is missing, that you lack some backup that you, with the specific competencies your post requires...2020-09-3014 min
Sauna Talks1. Supporting EmployeesIn this episode I would like to discuss why supporting your employees is so crucial, what is actually worth sharing on the subject, how to support your people wisely and what to avoid in your day-to-day routine.
It might have occurred to you, as organization owners or team managers, that leaders’ life is often quite lonely - they neither get support from the outside, nor they are generously backed by the staff they have hired. This is particularly the case in the companies established by one person, not a group of founders.
Too soon, such so...2020-09-3013 min