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    Co-defining Values and Culture Among Founders
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    Co-defining Values and Culture Among Founders

    Catégorie
    2. Team
    Sous-catégorie
    2.1. Recruiting & Management
    Stade
    MVP

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    What is at stake?

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    What values and culture do the founders want to integrate to their company?

    Why is it important?

    The culture of a company is reflected in how the team will make decisions when the founders are not in the room. It is what will empower employees to be more autonomous.

    At the MVP stage, the company culture primarily allows founders to agree on a decision-making process and to bring coherence to their actions.

    Three actions to take right now

    1️⃣ Define the first 3-5 key values of the company among the founders

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    Example: The Five Leadership Principles at Alan (health insurance startup)

    Leadership Principles

    • 👥 Members First
    • 🚀 Fearless Ambition
    • 🤝 Distributed Ownership
    • 👁 Radical Transparency
    • 🌱 Personal and Community Growth

    → Learn more

    2️⃣ Use these values to define the startup's processes (thus embodying the values in your daily practices)

    For example, to define the customer support process, in recruitment, etc.

    3️⃣ Use these values to define your management style

    In particular, decide on your approach to:

    • Feedback: how to encourage regular feedback? And how to welcome and respond to feedback?
    • Celebrating achievements: how to highlight daily progress? and how to acknowledge the successes of each team member?
    • Autonomy: how to promote initiative-taking? How to ensure important responsibilities are given and to allow employees to grow within the team?

    📚 For further reading

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    📖 The Galion Value Process

    Values Process - The Galion Project

    Le Galion Values Process pour ambition d'accompagner les entrepreneurs dans la construction des valeurs de leur société.

    thegalionproject.com

    Values Process - The Galion Project
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    📖  Le Tuto Comet: Defining Values, Culture (Maddyness, 2019)

    Définir ses valeurs, sa culture. Le tuto comet

    Chez comet, nous savons depuis le début que l'humain est et sera notre force. Cliché, mais vrai. Nous avons donc décidé d'y apporter une attention toute particulière. Dès le tout début, nous avons initié la discussion autour de la culture d'entreprise, mais il était difficile de trouver des ressources claires sur le sujet.

    www.maddyness.com

    Définir ses valeurs, sa culture. Le tuto comet
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    📖 Experience Report: ”Who we are and how we are building our culture” (Alan)

    Article written by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, co-founder & CEO of Alan (health insurance startup).

    Who we are and how we are building our culture

    At Alan, we have a set of cultural values that we believe help us deliver the best product to our users, improve healthcare experience and be fast and effective. Those values have direct implications in the way we build our platform.

    blog.alan.com

    Who we are and how we are building our culture

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