ScaleUp + High Performance Meter: The only tool you would need to go from Series A to Series E with continuous value creation
Yes, that's right. Validated multiple times across last decade with hands-on experience of scaling high growth setups, The ScaleUp + High Performance meter is the only tool you would need, to go from Series A to Series E driving continuous value creation & growth.
While the ScalingUp Playbook outlines the essentials that needs to be in place for smooth progression, the ScaleUp + High Performance meter is highly focussed on entire HR value chain, with specific aspects to focus on, to ensure optimal value creation & readiness for next level. Here's the challenge it solves: In a high growth setup, the Leadership & Key people's focus tends to be business (& rightly so), customer & strategy part of it & given the vastness of HR value chain, it's imperative to break down HR value chain to it's elements & progressively focus on to ensure HR acts as strong driver / determinant of value & growth. Exactly this need is solved by The ScaleUp + High Performance meter, of determining the HR roadmap & dissecting smaller focus areas to conquer & create value.
Key highlights:
a) Encompasses a very broad range of HR value chain, like, Employer Branding, Onboarding, Retention, Alignment, Goal Setting & Performance Management, Capability & Workforce planning, Productivity & Performance, Growth & Development, Organizational Effectiveness (Structure, RnRs, Role Clarity, Automation & Systems etc), Best Practices & Competitor Mapping.
b) It specifically points out what areas to focus on Now, what areas can be deferred & what not to focus on, basis the current stage & upcoming progressive stage.
Over the years, we have found that organisations start paying attention to these basics only when some alarm bell goes off. That’s a bit like installing the fire alarms when the fire is eating up the floor. Rather what is needed early on though, is a clear set of practices (the What, the how, the Why, the metrics etc along with engaging cross-functional teams to increase the effectiveness), for example, from the below table, setups aspiring for Series A milestone, should get in place an effective & recruitment practice & a workable onboarding process - this by itself would unlock a strong value with high growth that would come post fund-raise milestone.
c) The tool forms a balance between practices of Employee Experience, Org Strategy, Culture, Growth rate & practices required at minimum to create value at that level + readiness of practices to get to next level. Given that high growth setups are heavily dependent on their Founders & Key People to build practices – this tool helps Leadership with roadmap of building only essential & critical practices without which the growth would be counter-productive. For example: From the table above, for Pre-Series A setup (Series A aspirant), while it's important to have strong practice of Recruitment & Onboarding, it's also equally critical to ensure Retention & Engagement are sorted. If not, it could well result in to leaky tap, highly counterproductive to the growth happening.
d) Given that this tool highlights specifically what to do & when - it helps to define what can be deferred (technical debt) & what is not required. Knowing these are equally critical bringing in focus to drive the required change management + operational excellence of these practices as they get deployed on ground.
e) Why the tool when the priorities are outlined above? The tool helps with specifics of granular areas to cover in each priority. It equally gives an objective score vis a vis the ideal score that needs to be for the respective stage (i.e. Capability Maturity). This helps Leadership & Founders in pacing the initiatives & prioritizing basis the aspirational milestone to be achieved.
Here is how to get started on it:
a) Get through the ScalingUp Playbook (you would have to subscribe to access the entire content - it's all free). Identify your respective stage & focus areas that you need to drive to successfully get to next level.
b) To take the ScaleUp + High Performance Meter - it comes for $ 1200 (per instance). This would cover entire report of current maturity levels of key HR practices, What it should be & extended gap to get to aspirational level. This growth scan would enable you with pinpoint precision to focus on specifics, fast tracking the value creation & getting to next milestone.
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You would get your results in 48 - 72 working hours in your email. The outcome would be the capability maturity of critical areas mentioned above & recommendations to bridge the gaps
c) Incase you want to try it out, here's the demo of it. This demo is more relevant for Pre-Series A setups, but would create a strong value for progressive setups as well: Link
c) If you want to put a prioritizations & roadmap to executing the improvement areas, we can chat here: Connect over Chat
d) For any queries otherwise: Connect over Chat