EPISODE 141 | How She Curates an Incredible Performance and Development Culture
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Creating your own company means creating your own company culture. And if you’re anything like all the solopreneurs that are joining the online workspace because of the Great Resignation, you want to create a WAYYY more nurturing company culture. But how can you create it if you’ve never seen it? You can start by making your teammates feel appreciated. It’s as simple as that! We dive deeper into curating this kind of company culture with this week’s guest.
Meet Laura Tolhoek, she’s the owner of Essential HR. Laura helps a wide range of people, from aspiring solopreneurs to teams of 50, with all their HR needs. This week, Laura and I talk about how to create an incredible performance and development culture, and how to keep your teammates along for the long haul.
This Week We Talk About:
How to have low employee turnover
Why you should work with your teammates’ personal motivations
How to make each individual teammate feel appreciated
How to imagine and create work environments that you want to work in
About Laura!
As a Certified Human Resource Leader (CHRL) and the proprietor of Essential HR, Laura Tolhoek knows that there is no room for ambiguity when a business faces HR problems, only positive results. For the last 15 years, she has blended sound HR practices with her pragmatic approach to improve business performance.
Now, Laura leads a team of HR professionals that not only help Managers navigate HR situations, guide decisions, and instill confidence with actionable steps, but they also help scaling solopreneurs feel prepared to take the hiring leap!
In her spare time, Laura enjoys the company of her husband and two children. The kids continue to help her hone her leadership skills of negotiation and compromise, and after a decade, her husband is starting to warm up to the performance reviews.
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