PX Espresso☕with Luke O'Mahoney 031 - Alice Burks - 🎙️ep. 031 - Alice Burks - Scaling PX in a Global + Fully Remote scale-up in Hypergrowth
Boooooom 💥Back once again with the ill behaviour 😎
This week, Luke chats with Alice Burks, Director of People Success at one the fastest growing global People Tech scale-ups, Deel 🚀... in fact, not just in People tech; Deel is one of the the fastest-growing start-ups in history 😱
Meet Alice 🌟Prior to Deel, Alice was Global Head of Learning at DICE and Global Leadership Development Partner at Trustpilot... Safe to say, this conversation is packed with actionable PX insights for People Leaders in high-growth companies!
The challenges of scaling fully remote global teams🚀
Alice shares some of the challenges and benefits of managing a fully remote, globally distributed workforce, particularly within the context of a rapidly scaling company like Deel.
How Deel approach global and remote onboarding💡
Luke and Alice discuss the importance of structured onboarding and how Deel approaches this focusing on both operational and experiential aspect.
The role storytelling plays in People Practices🗣️
From a background in advertising, PR and TV Production, Alice knows all about the power of storytelling and the role of storytelling in HR and people practices, particularly in communicating the value of initiatives and aligning them with company culture, and end user “language fit”.
Deel’s approach to values-based hiring🤝
Hiring is hard at the best if times, but, fully remote and global makes this particularly challenging for companies like Deel. Alice speaks about how Deel place the emphasis on values-based hiring and the importance of cultural (behaviour, motivation, working preferences etc) alignment when recruiting for a rapidly growing, remote-first company.
Enjoy!
Catch you next time! ✌️
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Contact Luke:
Email: luke@sapienx.co.uk
LinkedIn: Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn
Website: Sapienˣ | People First Product Led (sapienx.co.uk)
Contact Alice:
LinkedIn: Alice Burks | LinkedIn
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