From A People Perspective

Applying Design Principles To Your Candidate & Employee Experiences with Elsawy Yehia - Product & Design Leader


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Elsawy Yehia is a curious soul and seasoned product and design leader in tech. With career adventures spanning over 20 years, 6 countries, 7 industries, 13 brands, and over a dozen public speaking engagements. He is most fulfilled when helping people grow to become better thinkers and makers.

We covers how Elsawy came into the world of product, design, leadership and how to apply design principles to your candidate and employee experiences.

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Shownotes:

00:00 – Introduction

(3:20) – How many companies are doing a good job of designing the employee/candidate experience?

(5:30) – Icebreaker question

(9:10) – Reflection on past work, leading to where he is today

(13:25) – Refining your character, learning more about yourself

(14:50) – How Elsawy got to where he is today

(20:35) – “You have to have been a player to become a coach”

(24:40) - “Building people who love building great products”

(33:20)– Elsawy’s Manifesto

(37:25) – Origin of why Manifesto was created, how can People Ops folks apply this practise for themselves?

(45:10) – Coming to interviews with a framework on leadership

(47:00) – The importance of trust building with products

(57:40) – ‘Pre-totyping’

(1:07:05) – Elsawy’s upcomingbBook; Product People: A Journal of Laughter and Tears

(1:10:20) – Closing remarks

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