Oct 6, 2021
Today I'm lucky to have on the show the Chief People Officer at Wayfair, Kate Gulliver. Informed by her career across many different parts of the company, Kate shares her vision and strategies on consistency and support for the hugely varying needs within the company. From the evergreen people principles at Wayfair, to the importance of collaborative cohesion and always assuming the best of your co-workers integrity, we learn what it means to be part of the network of employees that are touched and supported by the talent division. She also shares with us her strategies for creating umbrella support across the business while providing equity of opportunity for every team member at Wayfair. We then dissect the interviewing process, the intricacies of internal mobility, and developing a system of internal mobility hires within senior and junior levels.
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“It starts with how we define what it means to be a team member at Wayfair and that’s through our people principles, which is how we characterized how we want people to show that work and how we hope and expect the people operate with each other.” — [0:05:24]
“Collaboration is core to our success, to work effectively you have to know how to work across multiple teams, get the alignment that you need and be transparent.” — [0:07:30]
“We have different hot jobs that we highlight each week so that people know what is out there and then provide examples of people that have been successful in internal mobility.” — [0:15:27]
“Helping to build other teams throughout Wayfair benefits Wayfair, and that means that you as a manager are great at developing talent.” — [0:18:08]
“You know, all employees, team members really want to know, “How do I perform at my best? What is expected of me?” — [0:22:04]
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