NOBL Academy

How eShare’s Offer Letter Improves the Onboarding Process

Learning the ins and outs of a new position can be stressful and overwhelming. Give your employees the best possible shot at success by making the onboarding process a little easier, and reap the reward of them sticking around longer.

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The 12 Questions Product Plan Asks to Get Better Customer Feedback

Whether your team is creating a new product or feeling out of touch with what users want, ask these 12 questions when you need rapid and thorough feedback from your customers.

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How to Be a “Super Boss”

In the end, the difference between celebrated CEOs and their failed peers boils down to something quite simple: successful CEOs have the confidence that allows them to enjoy other big personalities. Look for ways to support and recognize your team.

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How Location Labs Retains 95% of Their Employees

If you’re clear on what your company has to offer, and find talent that aligns with your goals, you’ll get happy employees who want to stick around.

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Why Tesla Is a Model of Long-Term Strategic Planning

A great strategy doesn’t have to feel like playing three-dimensional chess. Identify one or two critical issues in a situation, concentrate action and resources on them, and set clear metrics to make sure you’re moving towards your end goal.

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Why Spredfast Starts New Hires on Fridays

Try starting your employees on a Friday in a group orientation setting. This takes the pressure off existing employees who are trying to juggle work with onboarding, which in turn leaves a better first impression on the new hire.

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When and How to Use Different Interviewing Formats

A longer vetting process gives candidates more exposure to company culture and ways of working. Use a variety of interviews as a toolkit for assessing your team’s needs and finding the right person to serve them.

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How Lyft’s Culture Made Hypergrowth Possible

Review your core company values and reinvigorate the hiring process to attract and retain the talent that will carry the company through periods of hypergrowth.

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Use Blind Auditions to Reduce Hiring Bias

While these steps may seem new to you and unlike how you’ve hired in the past, that’s exactly the point. Hiring is perhaps the most critical activity of any business because who you choose will in turn make critical choices for the business itself–don’t let this important of a decision be derailed by your unconscious biases.

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Always Be Innovating: Lessons from Apple and the S-Curve

When launching a new product, keep in mind that it will go through the S-Curve: slow acceptance, explosive growth, and finally, a plateau. While the rapid growth phase may feel like it’s time to celebrate, it’s really a signal that your organization must invest in R&D to find the next opportunity or risk stalling out.

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The Five Reasons Big Companies Fail to Change

Despite vast resources, power, and potential, any large organization can fall behind in an evolving marketplace. Take a deeper look at your company’s existing processes to ensure that everything is intentional (not just habitual) and seek out ways to introduce safe-to-fail experiments to maintain an innovative edge.

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Future “Thinks Wrong” to Encourage Creativity

Given that people’s brains are wired to find the most obvious path to a solution, coupled with the fact that culture emphasizes being right, it’s no wonder thinking creatively is so daunting. Tricking their brains into overriding fears and biases will help the team break out of the status quo.

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How Next Big Sound Conducts Learning Reviews

While playing the blame game may serve as a quick way out, it will only sabotage your organization from within. So when something goes wrong, don’t blame individuals for failure, but rather, investigate the conditions surrounding the incident. Human error is a symptom, not a cause, of a systemic issue.

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How FiveStars Realized Its Company Culture Had to Change

If you think your team’s culture is hampering productivity or notice that employees aren’t happy, ask yourself if unclear values or contrasting ways of working are causing discord. Define your team’s core values and make them explicit, implementing company-wide strategies to maintain them.

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Why Etsy’s All Hands Meetings Create an Open Culture

Use rituals like an all-hands to find ways you can encourage your team to bring their whole selves to work.

Tools

Use Quadrants for Better Time Management

While you will likely always have to spend at least part of your day doing things you less-than-love, getting clear on how you’re spending your time will help you work with more intention, and have a bigger pay off at the end of each week.

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How Medium Uses Day-Long Retreats to Tackle Big Design Projects

Regularly setting aside time for your team to work on large projects is more efficient and motivating than trying to fit work into already busy schedules.

Explainers

How Long Does Organizational Change Take?

The deadline for any organizational change can feel like “yesterday.” We took a look at notable turnarounds to help you compare to the challenges you and your teams may be facing.

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How to Hack an Existing Business Model

The instant a new business model is implemented, it begins to become obsolete. Organizations should take a systematic approach to identifying, developing, and testing new business models long before their existing streams of revenue are threatened by upstarts.

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BP: Why Companies Fail to Learn from Past Mistakes

Even if mistakes are not life-threatening, they are still costly: they stifle innovation, kill profits, and endanger the job security of your team. Make sure that new products or processes are “safe to fail”—that is, they won’t hurt the business—and reward people for speaking up about safety.

Impossible is temporary.

How eShare’s Offer Letter Improves the Onboarding Process

The 12 Questions Product Plan Asks to Get Better Customer Feedback

How to Be a “Super Boss”

How Location Labs Retains 95% of Their Employees

Why Tesla Is a Model of Long-Term Strategic Planning

Why Spredfast Starts New Hires on Fridays

When and How to Use Different Interviewing Formats

How Lyft’s Culture Made Hypergrowth Possible

Use Blind Auditions to Reduce Hiring Bias

Always Be Innovating: Lessons from Apple and the S-Curve

The Five Reasons Big Companies Fail to Change

Future “Thinks Wrong” to Encourage Creativity

How Next Big Sound Conducts Learning Reviews

How FiveStars Realized Its Company Culture Had to Change

Why Etsy’s All Hands Meetings Create an Open Culture

Use Quadrants for Better Time Management

How Medium Uses Day-Long Retreats to Tackle Big Design Projects

How Long Does Organizational Change Take?

How to Hack an Existing Business Model

BP: Why Companies Fail to Learn from Past Mistakes