The 4 Stages Of Growing a People Operations Team: POPS & HR

This episode is all about People Operations for SMBs and the four stages of growing your People Ops team.

Now, maybe that just starts with you as the founder, but as you grow a business, you then start to lean on other people. Maybe it's an office manager, an assistant, a director of operations, somebody that helps you wrap your arms around the structure of the business and train the new people that are coming in. As your business grows more, maybe you bring on that first HR person or People Operations person, and then eventually they build out their team with all the different functions.

This was a really fun conversation where we dug into the three different people, four, including me, who have held those roles so far at Trainual over the last four or five years. We broke down each stage, the things that we were good at, the things that we were not so good at, and the things that maybe you should be thinking about in your business as you grow to develop an incredible employee experience. Enjoy, dig in and hear our story for how we've grown People Ops at Trainual.

Shoutout to Sasha Robinson, Chelsey Krisay, and Marlowe Everett for jumping on the podcast to discuss all thing people ops with me!

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[Mecherle]

To echo Andrew, this was incredibly helpful. I've been fulfilling HR/People Ops functions as parts of larger roles for the last 4-5 years, but haven't ever been able to focus entirely on People Ops. This has just inspired me to push toward a full time People Ops role, and it has given me wonderful insight into different HR/People Ops roles at a scaling company. Thank you!

[andreweast]

This video came at a great time. I’ve been in HR for almost 5 years and I’m finally getting to transition my company’s HR team into People Operations and this video has been incredibly helpful! Thanks everyone!