The Modern People Leader: Forward-Thinking HR 158 - Managers will make or break your company: Luck Dookchitra (VP of People, Leapsome) & Jenny von Podewils (Co-CEO, Leapsome)
Leapsome’s Luck Dookchitra, VP of People, and Jenny von Podewils, Co-founder & Co-CEO, joined us on The Modern People Leader.
We talked about the evolution of the manager role over the last 5-10 years, “Review Jams” at Leapsome, and how to make manager 1x1s better.
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(1:47) Good news stories
(6:55) The story behind what brought Luck to Leapsome
(11:58) What Leapsome does
(19:23) Defining the Chief People Officer role
(26:30) The 3 most important objectives they’re working on together as CEO and VP of People
(28:37) How Luck has approached her first 4 months as VP of People
(30:00) “Review Jams” at Leapsome and where the idea came from
(34:56) Going to slow to accelerate
(37:00) The product thinking and constant iteration at Leapsome
(43:19) The evolution of the manager role
(46:50) Commonalities of the best managers
(57:06) HR’s role in manager effectiveness
(59:15) Manager enablement days at Leapsome
(1:04:28) The 3 components of meaningful 1x1 meetings
(1:09:04) How to make 1x1s better
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