Performance4 min read
How to Build Salary Bands for the First Time
The hard part is not drawing the ranges. It is placing the people you already have, and deciding what you will do about the ones who fall outside.
Ana Reis
Author
Ana Reis
Builds the People foundations of growing companies — and stays with them until they work day to day.
Co-founder — People & Management
Areas of work
- Performance cycles
- Careers and progression
- Management routines
- Values and behaviours
- Implementation and adoption
All articles
Management4 min read
How to Run a One-to-One That Is Worth the Hour
Most one-to-ones are status meetings with two people in them. The fix is not a better template — it is deciding what the meeting is for.
Ana Reis
Culture3 min read
Values and Behaviours: Making a Values Statement Change Decisions
A value nobody has ever paid a price for is a preference. The test is whether it has changed a decision that cost something.
Ana Reis
Performance4 min read
Career Frameworks for Scale-ups: When and How to Build One
Built too early it is theatre. Built too late you are unwinding two years of individual negotiations. The trigger is more specific than headcount.
Ana Reis
Performance4 min read
How to Build a Performance Management System Managers Will Actually Use
Most performance systems are designed for the People team. Design for the manager holding a difficult conversation on a Thursday afternoon and almost everything changes.
Ana Reis
Talent4 min read
When Should a Scale-up Hire a Chief People Officer?
Headcount is the wrong trigger. The right one is the point at which People decisions start being expensive to reverse.
Ana Reis
Scaling Teams4 min read
The People Operating System: What Growing Companies Need Beyond HR
HR delivers processes. An operating system connects them. The difference shows up the first time a performance rating has to justify a pay decision.
Ana Reis
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