notes on how I try to lead the team at Helmit. still learning this every week.
Mega Vision
people have to see where this is going. for us:
- become the parental control app worldwide
- have the best threat detection models in existence and sell them to platforms directly
- and from there: the personal digital safety layer for everyone
everyone has to realize that they are part of this journey and that they also own a part of it.
make them personally motivated
- where do you see them in one year
- maybe with their own team
- being responsible for x, y
- we only want the best people working on this problem
- The problem it is so important that it deserves the best talent working on it. This is HELMIT
- give them praise
give ownership
- everyone is a product manager
- should get the problem, then think of the solution, validate it with customers and iterate on it
- give them a problem and say that they can solve it better than you and that you have complete trust in them to deliver it
- one person owns a topic. then nobody else has to spend brainpower on it
set ambitious deadlines
- if deadlines are not met, discuss why they were not met
- clear number goals, broken down into numbers you can actually control
everyone can be challenged
- including me
- this leads to a call where this is discussed
- don’t tell people what they did wrong. set clear expectations instead
no ego
- titles don’t matter that much. I am just me
- our values: lean building, family first, obsessed with the customer, no ego
have fun time
the office has to be cooler than home → Motivating Employees