P403 - Building high performing teams, with Yvonne Agyei, Chief People Officer, Gocardless

Yvonne describes her experience in building high performing teams, hiring at scale and for culture and managing remote teams.

Highlights:

- When scaling teams, you have to have a detailed plan, how to interview, how to make hiring decisions, how to onboard, but you have to accept that you will sacrifice some short term productivity as these processes can be time consuming.

- You must hire for culture and behaviours, not just for your benefit but also for the candidate

- With global and remote teams you must appreciate the different communication styles that predominate around the world.

Yvonne Agyei is the Chief People Officer at Gocardless. She was formerly the Chief People Officer of booking .com. Prior to that she spent 12 years at Google, latterly as the VP of global people operations. Yvonne has a Bachelor's in Psychology from Stanford, and a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern. 

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