Hey everyone, we're planning a team retreat with the context being that half our team is UK based and the other half is remote around the world. Wondered if anyone has any experience planning a hybrid team retreat & how you built the remote team in to the whole experience?

Hey Team! Carbon Offset platforms - would love to hear peoples recommendations and thoughts! 🙂 A client is looking to implement a solution as a bit of a phase 1 internal test before going bigger 🌱

Good morning everyone, What’s the biggest Ops myth you’d like to see addressed? One I had a while ago was: “You’re in operations so you love admin, for me it’s just not my thing.” For full transparency, I’d like to use your quotes on the ON LinkedIn page to bring more visibility to some of these myths so we can start working through them. Of course you’ll receive all credit for your quote.

Hi all, if anyone has any recommendations for a man with a van that we can use for our office move in a few weeks, please drop below! 🚚

Hey folks! Asking on behalf of a community member who's currently starting to look for a new role: What are your recommended recruiters and/or job boards for operations roles?

Hi all, can anyone recommend an HR service provider? Thank you!

Hi all. I realize some startups and scale-ups occasionally end up with a bit of spare space in their offices and would welcome a sublet from a trusted company. We at Startup CFO are looking for four desks in the West End, ideally, and we come with excellent references. 📃 We're even happy to take the office pup for a walk 🐕, so if anyone has some spare space to monetize drop me a DM.

Hello 👋 Has anyone had to create a policy on re-selling/recycling electronics? I need to figure out what to do with a stock of old company laptops we no longer need. Wonder if anyone had sold theirs on or recycled them with a company?

Morning! ☀️☀️ Happy Friday! 🎉🎉 We're growing internationally and looking at making some sales hires in other countries, most likely Spain next. We've opened a subsiary in Portugal, but that was pre-Brexit and assume there may be some more complexity now! Does anyone have experience opening a company in Spain and/or trading in other European markets without an entity, but still paying relevant taxes etc? Any personal experience or recommendations of who to speak to would be greatly appreciated.

<!here> Hello everyone and happy Friday! 👋 CTA: Please give us your honest opinions on this first attempt at an Operations skills matrix. 👀 • 1. Via emoji scale (quick poll) 😍 - Love it 😀 - That’s great 🤔 - I’m not sure, I need to think about it 😐 - Not bad, but it needs improvement 😖 - I don’t like it, it doesn’t make sense 🥴 - I’m so confused • 2. By filling in this form (more in-depth feedback) What are the caveats to keep in mind? This will not reflect EVERYTHING an ops person does in their career from junior to a senior position. We’re also not trying to cover it all in this first iteration. The idea is to create a yearly matrix so you can check it off bingo style. At some point, hopefully, we’ll be able to cover it all. So keep that in mind when you review our first iteration. What is it? Everyone keeps talking about Ops Excellence, and quite frankly, it’s quite the fuzzy term. But, @wide-oil-40650 did a talk about this and found that we can centre it all around 8 pillars. So we took them and plotted them against different skill levels from foundational to expert level. This way, we give people an idea of what they should be able to do/master as they creep up the Ops ladder to a COO career. Why did we create this? The ops career path is murky, especially when we don’t know what we should be able to do/know. A lot of us are also managing fellow ops professionals and we’re often tasked with creating an L&D plan for the team, how can we make one, if we’re scratching our heads figuring out which skills we need? We hope that putting Ops Excellence points in a skills matrix, will start creating insights into the things we need to know and learn to move on to the next step in our careers. We want you to thrive, and this seemed like a great way to help out. How can you help? Nobody is better placed than Ops Stories members to see if this is a useful piece of work or not. If we get the first version out, we can build on it and create more and more useful content. Give us all the candid feedback you have for us here. You can be brutal, it’s important. Thank you so much for your help! ❤️

Anybody based in Dubai? I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out.

Morning eveyone! Question for you: We're looking to "freshen up" our weekly team meeting. Rather than being a splurge from each department on what they're working on, does anyone has any experience / creative ideas into how to make these things fun, insightful and fresh? You might even question if we need a weekly meeting at all (!). Any ideas / insights much appreciated. We're about 12 people in total at the moment!

Hey all - nate let go a significant chunk of staff yesterday across various departments, if any of you are hiring for product managers, office managers, data scientists, marketing staff or finance staff, please DM me and I'll send to some of the staff - we really did have some amazing staff, such sharp and hard working people who from no fault of their own where let go yesterday due to the macro economic conditions, I'd appreciate any help today from this community, as lots of these people where my friends and yesterday wasn't nice :)

Hey Ops Stories peeps! Do you have an expenses policy that you’ve found gives agency to your team to act with financial prudence (in current leaner times)? We’re a 15-person distributed team who all have Wise cards to use from a central pot (where we intend to maintain ledgers for each person, as we roll out individual Benefits pots where they can decide how they spend the pot eg healthcare, L&D, etc) - generally people are pretty good, but we want to provide clarity on what can and cannot be expensed, so it’s fair to everyone. Any help is much appreciated!

Hi everyone! Just wondering if there is a similar group/forum run for Marketing networks? I'd love to intro our team of one Marketing Exec to similar support and resources 😄

Hi all, I wondered if anyone knew of / could recommend any good events or conferences for senior engineers / product managers to attend? Asking for a techy friend ☺️

Hey all my wonderful people Wondering if anyone has experience in organising a 3 day company work trip abroad for celebrations with also team building? Keen to explore abroad or UK for 25 - 30 people. Is there any companies or places to go that help with this? Thanks :):)

Hi all! Does anyone have a policy for Paid Time Off that includes annual leave and sick leave together and would be willing to share? The idea is to offer 30 days paid days and employees can use them for vacation or sick days or mental health leave. Thank you all!

Hey team, asking for a friend who needs advice by this Friday:

Does anyone have employees on shift patterns?

We are looking to implement 24/7 for our customer service department and I don't even know where to start 😔

Anyone can help/advice?

Anyone got any recommendations for small job handy work in London , a client of ours needs the below completed. We have a couple of options but they'd like further qoutes and the other companies on our books don't work on the smaller jobs To sum up we just need someone to break down the glass partition wall, redecorate the area and change the position of the breakfast bar to the opposite wall. Thanks

Bit of a long shot but I'm currently looking at creative tech start ups and wondered if anyone knows of any inspiring female leaders in this space? 🤔

Hey folks! I'm looking for tax accountant recommendations in the US. Requirements: • Trusted and used by someone in Ops Stories 😉 • Not a massive firm (we don't have any complex requirements atm) • Able to advise on US tax matters and file everything for us • Can handle payroll (we use Gusto) • Works with Xero (I'm not gonna go to Quickbooksland) • Affordable Will welcome any introductions!!

Hi all, Out of curiosity, what's your best meeting practices/meeting types? Currently at my company, we need to re-evaluate how our meetings are conducted as we have outgrown some of them. Any recommendations? 🙂

Has anyone got any experience with managing stock and orders? We're currently not shipping enough to outsource but it's enough that it's becoming incredibly time-consuming and we're expecting a lot of growth over the next few months so want to reduce scope for order error and get a better stock tracking system in place to reduce time spent on it

Hi everyone 👋, We are looking at writing our parental leave policy and interested in hearing what other companies are doing. Does anyone have any examples or benchmarking data for what other startups are doing for parental leave that they could share?

Hello everyone! Are there any Ops people who are active in recruitment/hiring and would like to share their experience / insights / opinions on the role of AI in recruitment? I did a 30-40 min interview with LSE students writing a dissertation on this topic and they are looking to speak to more people. They will share their business report with whom they interview. Please email: k.afzal@lse.ac.uk if you can help + would like to participate!

Hi everyone, wondering if anyone can help recommend a supplier/suppliers that does health and safety audits, trains fire marshalls, provides procedures for fire drills, PAT testing. We're looking to level up our day to day operations

I've spoken to quite a few people about team retreats/off-sites recently and thought I'd share this post from Kitt on what they recently done (not sure if anyone from there is in this group) but we worked with the founders a little while back and this seems like so much fun! Dragons den challenge, retro video gaming and just dance battles - what's not to love 🐕 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kittoffices_strategy-training-fun-activity-69521871239[…]e8OC?utm_source=linkedin_share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web

Hi! Has anybody ever used a financial coach before? I’m hearing about them more and more, coaching for individuals specifically around finance, budgeting, saving, and defining and achieving financial goals. Keen to know whether others are hearing about it and your thoughts!

Hello has anyone got any recommendations for stationery suppliers in London? Thanks 🙂