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Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.
What steps have you been taken to build on the organization?
Jeanne Borders, head of school, Cornerstone Preparatory Academy:
I think it's all part of the time. They're only here. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Tuesday, Thursday. Our teachers come in very well rested. I manage by walking around. I feel like I'm one of the team. I know I'm the leader, but hopefully that does not come across that way to them. You know we're all in this together. I would not be willing to do it. I feel comfortable coming in. I just feel like that.
Kyle Porter, CEO, SalesLoft:
We've taken a giant leap. In terms of our understanding, we are able to help our people to fulfill their needs. lives. It's been an emotional leap, it's been an idea of how to do business. Organizational health is so important to our business.
Stuart Gulley, president, Woodward Academy:
The first two years have been appreciated and valued here. In 2015, we received the recognition through the Top Employer competition. We have tried to maintain the benefits.
What hiring activity has your recently experienced?
Porter:
We've grown 300 percent over the last two years, and we're maintaining a three digit percentage growth every year. We have over 350 people (globally), and it's just that we're all right, be led by the mission and be driven by the purpose.
Gulley:
Virtually anybody, we're left for some reason. We might, from time to time, have an additional position, and we stand in a student enrollment standpoint. An example of where the film industry is in Georgia, particularly in the Atlanta area. We believe that this is an opportunity for us. We are developing a program in film studies at Woodward and will be adding an individual.
Q: Is retention still strong?
Gulley:
It has great staying power with its employees, so it is not an issue for us. We do have turnover every year; most of it related to retirement. Last year, we had 12 people from Woodward, and 25 years of age. Studies suggest that employee satisfaction has a lot to do with the salary and benefits, and what we need. But I guess outside of that, we hope they do support it,
Porter:
We've had the boomerang effect with the handful of employees, where they can be left out, and they have come back.
Rob Forman, president and chief operating officer, SalesLoft:
I do not fault them, I do not fault them. . I would like to take them to basically stay the course. I encourage employees to look at the bank in a three-to-five-year investment. Companies like SalesLoft do not come around every day.
Do you feel like there is an Atlanta metro? And what type of recruiting do you do?
Borders:
They find us. We do very little advertising. It's word of mouth.
Forman:
It's a great environment to build a business. I am talking to multiple leaders who are getting out of the metropolitan areas. It's expensive, but then it's obviously a cultural difference. People have noticed there is less, there are more people who can join in the organization. period of time, which I think makes a huge difference. Over the next 10 years, I want to see. SalesLoft employees.
As you continue to grow, what is your vision going forward?
Borders:
Our students is really got to know about 600 students, so we have still got some capacity. When we were building, we did not make plans to get any extra wings. I feel like you can learn each other. We do not want to get more than that, so if we want to get a university-model school started nearby.
Forman:
We have a five-year goal, and we want to hit 5,000 customers paying us an average of $ 50,000 for our $ 250 million goal over the next five years. We've got a model that has our headcount ramping up. Any organization with a sales team can benefit from SalesLoft, which is a huge market, then we can just keep planning to grow. It's a great amount of people to hire.
