Season 3 Episode 9 - Anna Westerhoff-Mason - Building High-Performing Teams in Startup & Scale-Up Environments
Anna Westerhoff-Mason - Building High-Performing Teams in Startup & Scale-Up Environments
In this insightful episode, we discuss high-performing teams in startup and scale-up environments and we uncover what does that actually look like day-to-day — not in theory, but in reality. We unpick the importance of Defining culture early and what should leaders focus on first: values, behaviours, or outcomes, together with exploring how much of culture is intentionally designed versus organically formed in the early stages.
We talk about hiring in a start up, what matters more than technical skill when building a high-performing early team. Anna gives an insight into how to maintain your culture as your company grows and why we often see how it starts strong but gets diluted as teams scale.
We also delve into Leadership, trust and psychological safety and the importance of talent retention & sustaining performance and why consistent communications and feedback from leadership is vital.
Anna also gives her three key actions that you can take in the next 90 days to strengthen team performance and culture.