158 - Managers will make or break your company: Luck Dookchitra (VP of People, Leapsome) & Jenny von Podewils (Co-CEO, Leapsome)
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Leapsome’s Luck Dookchitra, VP of People, and Jenny von Podewils, Co-founder & Co-CEO, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about the evolution of the manager role over the last 5-10 years, “Review Jams” at Leapsome, and how to make manager 1x1s better. ---- If you’re an HR leader that’s trying to uplevel your managers’ 1x1 meetings, use Leapsome’s FREE Meeting’s Module. ---- (1:47) Good news stories (6:55) The story behind what brought Luck to Leapsome (11:58) What Leapsome does (19:23) Defining the Chief People Officer role (26:30) The 3 most important objectives they’re working on together as CEO and VP of People (28:37) How Luck has approached her first 4 months as VP of People (30:00) “Review Jams” at Leapsome and where the idea came from (34:56) Going to slow to accelerate (37:00) The product thinking and constant iteration at Leapsome (43:19) The evolution of the manager role (46:50) Commonalities of the best managers (57:06) HR’s role in manager effectiveness (59:15) Manager enablement days at Leapsome (1:04:28) The 3 components of meaningful 1x1 meetings (1:09:04) How to make 1x1s better ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn
