What is your startup culture?

What could be better than launching your own business? The incredible opportunity to make your dreams come true? The wealth that bring along? To many founders, it’s the chance to take full control and run a business the way you want it to be.

Nothing like large corporations, startups get the unique opportunity to build their own company culture from the ground up. Not only the company culture have great impacts on the employees, but ultimately, the customers too. So how to ensure that your business has a positive culture that makes you stand out from all the other startups?

Establish your company values

Define your company values and communicate to your team regularly.

Emphasis on things you adore the most, for example, if you value the service quality a lot, provide enough resources and guidelines to the team about the quality standard you look up to.

Follow up with complementary activities to remind your team the company values and build up such culture for long term.

Encourage the whole team to voice out No rules is probably the highlight of startups. It’s important to keep growing with each other in a startup culture. To do that, employees are encouraged to take risks and think outside the box.

While as the founder of the company, you must also lead by example. Be open-minded to your employee’s feedback. Because after all, they are the ones who are experiencing the company culture every day, their perspective could be more useful than you expect.

Hire the SAME people Of course, hard skills and work experience is important for people strategy. But never oversees the soft skills and personality they have that could possibly bring a positive effect to your startup culture. Pay attention to whether or not this person would be a good fit with your company culture during interviews. Actually it would be the best if you could afford spending an hour or two taking him/her for lunch and make a better evaluation by observing who they really are outside office.

Peony

Community Manager @ Ooosh Coworking

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Ooosh (defined as “The Cheer of Triumph”), is a coworking space where passionate entrepreneurs from new and old economies collide. Together, let’s strive ahead of the hyper-evolutionary times.

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3 Tips for building your startup squad

It’s never easy to achieve startup success without an effective team in the early growth stages. You may view the founder as the most important factor of a new business’s success. But the founder’s ability to build a great team around them is even more crucial.

Mark Zuckerberg once mentioned at a conference, “The most important thing for you as an entrepreneur trying to build something is, you need to build a really good team,”

The team’s personalities, values and actions have great impacts on the direction of the company in ways both active and passive. We have compiled 3 key factors for building your perfect squad to help jumpstart your success!

Communication is key

A startup team should be the closest team a business can ever form. Communicate the common goal to work towards and understand that communication is paramount for the success of the company.

First, understand your team members.

Second, Break down your words into specific point of views and explain to your team.

Third, point your team in the right direction to turn vision into action.

Finally, you must demonstrate the benefits of achieving the company’s vision to gain buy-in from team members.

Knowing their strengths and weaknesses

It’s all about balance. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses.

As a leader, you must find the right people for your business.

Identify what they are good at and place them in the position where they can shine. But not to forget people are not flawless.  Mitigate your team’s limitations through the team work and skills of their collaborators.

Share the moment with your team

If you want to be the new shining star in the industry, you need more than just hard work.

In fact, when you and your team have worked the hardest, turn the moment into a memorable time for winning and accomplishing great things.

Appreciate your team’s effort and encourage them to strive more and grow together with your business.

Peony

Community Manager @ Ooosh Coworking

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Ooosh (defined as “The Cheer of Triumph”), is a coworking space where passionate entrepreneurs from new and old economies collide. Together, let’s strive ahead of the hyper-evolutionary time.

#startup #business #team #success