Wade Foster
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 17 Sep
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So how do we retrain and reskill these folks who have some of those skills but need to learn some new skills?
And it turned out
Brandon, our chief people officer at the time, was like really good at doing a lot of these things.
His team was on the forefront of some of this insight of Zapier.
And so the thought for me was just like, hey, you're doing a good job at this.
Why don't you go help everybody in the company figure out some of these things?
It could have just as easily been a CMO or a CPO or in any number of roles.
It just that's how it was played out inside of Zapier.
And it's been funny how much I get asked this question now because I think a lot of folks think I have a point of view on, oh, it must be a chief people officer or something like that.
And it's like, no, it was really just
this was like at this moment in time inside of Zapier, this sort of felt like the best person to go tackle it based on the problems we were facing.
And I think that's the way you should do it inside your company.
You need to look at what are your bottlenecks, what are your constraints and go identify the person who is the right fit for that job.
One interesting thing, Zapir's had this value of default to transparency for
gosh forever, right?
Feels like.
And so by and large, we were already working in public for many such things.
And so we already had a culture where there was tons and tons of public Slack channels and people were like just talking about the projects and their day to day in those quite a bit.
I think a lot of what we observed was there had been as as the company grew
There was some pockets of work though that started to find their way into private channels or private DMs and things like that.
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