Are you a tech leader who was promoted for your tech skills and you need help with people decisions? I provide a framework for workplace people processes.

1. Debugging
Your
People
Stack
@jbunky
A Tech Leader’s
Guide to Making
Better People
Decisions

2. I’m Jen Bunk.
Expert in the Science of Organizations
Creator of People Stack Academy
@jbunky

3. Objective
To identify the people
process(es) MOST in need of
attention at your organization
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4. What’s your People Stack?1
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People Stack Framework: 8 Categories
What category do YOU need to focus on?

5. 1
What’s your People Stack?

6. You likely know your TECH Stack
inside and out.

7. You likely know your TECH Stack
inside and out.
What about your People Stack?

8. You likely know your TECH Stack
inside and out.
What about your People Stack?
It’s the collection of people processes that makes
your company GO.

9. Your greatest
resource is NOT
technology.

10. Your greatest
resource is NOT
technology.
It’s the people you
work with.”

11. People Stack Framework:
8 Categories
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12. Recruitment & Hiring
Evaluation & Performance
Development & Training
Stress & Health
Attitudes & Affect
Motivation & Rewards
Leadership & Management
Teams & Teamwork

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14. What category do YOU
need to focus on?
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15. People Stack Categories:
Sub-Categories
and Overarching Questions

16. People Stack Categories:
Sub-Categories
and Overarching Questions
To Do: Note what category is MOST
in need of attention in YOUR
organization…

17. • sourcing & recruiting
• job descriptions
• selection tests & interviews
• making hiring decisions
Recruitment & Hiring
How do
we attract
and select
the best
talent?

18. Evaluation & Performance
• performance management
• performance evaluations
• performance feedback
• citizenship behaviors
• counterproductive behaviors
How do we define, measure,
and maintain desired
performance levels?

19. Development & Training
• training (design through evaluation)
• training methods, techniques, & topics
• career development & mentoring
• succession planning
How do we grow,
maintain, and enhance
our knowledge, skills,
and abilities?

20. Stress & Health
• psychological health at work
• workplace stress (causes,
consequences, & management)
• work-life integration
What do we need to do to keep
ourselves psychologically and
physically healthy?

21. Attitudes & Affect
• affect, moods, & emotions
• employee engagement
• job satisfaction
• organizational commitment
• organizational justice
What do we think, how do we
feel, and why does this matter?

22. Motivation & Rewards
• motivation
• concepts
• theories
• applications
• compensation & benefits
How do we adequately
motivate ourselves and
others and provide suitable
rewards?

23. Leadership & Management
• leadership concepts, theories, and
applications
• leadership vs. management
• hiring, training, & evaluating leaders
How do we define
& achieve effective
leadership?

24. Teams & Teamwork
• group behavior
• groups vs. teams
• types of teams
• team life cycle, structure & processes
• hiring, training & evaluation in teams
How do we build
and maintain
effective and
efficient teams?

25. What category did you choose?

26. What category did you choose?
In that category, identify one small
but meaningful action you can take
TOMORROW that will improve
people decisions.

27. Need more help?
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course at People Stacktm
Academy.
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28. THANK YOU!
@jbunky