Is your team making your vision a reality? Are they getting there fast enough?

It is essential to have a leadership vision, AND you need to create the team to get there. This is where many inspiring visions fail.

I host Matt Cooper, CEO of Skillshare, who shares how leaders are tapping into new strategies to leverage the best talent around the world to accelerate their leadership vision and make them a reality.

Since joining in November 2016, he’s led the company to significant growth of both sales and subscribers. Skillshare has more than 800,000 paying subscribers today.

He brings the perfect balance of operational excellence and an entrepreneurial spirit to his role and has led a number of strategic initiatives surrounding employee experience and compensation including equity grant transparency and a no negotiation salary policy - two policies that have earned him recognition as a top leader. 

He’s also served as CEO of Visually and held senior leadership roles at Upwork and ScribbleLive.

LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/cooperm/

Company Link: https://www.skillshare.com/en/

What You’ll Discover in this Episode:

• A big leadership lesson that helps him remain curious and humble.
• How to tell if your team is giving you honest feedback.
• A strategy for giving and receiving hard feedback.
• A time an executive coach helped him.
• The biggest problem with Glassdoor reviews.
• The tool every leader can use to build their own “Skunkworks”.
• What he learned about delegation as executive at Odesk (now Upwork).
• How every company can innovate (even when you don’t meet in person).
• Two kinds of leadership and why you need both.
• How to tell if your team needs remote or in-person leadership training.
• Matt’s No B.S. policy for Stock Option Grants.
• Why Skillshare NEVER negotiates salaries.
• Two leaders that have impacted his career the most.
• The new “beanie babies” model that can be applied to any business.

Resources:

The Skillshare No B.S. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants by Matt Cooper, 

 equity grant transparency 

The Skillshare Why we have a no salary negotiation policy by Michael Karnjanaprakorn 

no negotiation salary policy 

The First 90 Days - Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded, Michael D Watkins

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