{"id":221004,"date":"2019-05-31T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/?p=221004"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T06:22:24","slug":"so-you-just-hired-a-head-of-engineering-and-things-are-getting-weirdnow-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/2019\/05\/31\/so-you-just-hired-a-head-of-engineering-and-things-are-getting-weirdnow-what\/","title":{"rendered":"So you just hired a Head of Engineering and things are getting weird\u2026now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PART\n2.  In this series of articles our Org\nPsych, Virginia Henningsen, takes you through real-life (anonymised of course)\nexamples of personalities you are likely to encounter when recruiting for your\nstartup\/scaleup and the tips and approaches you can apply to bring out their\nbest. Yes, there are also pitfalls to look out for and some people you\nmight want to avoid at all costs!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So your new Head of Engineering ticks all the boxes but then they start,\nand you can\u2019t quite get a handle on them, you can\u2019t work them out, everything\nyou do seems to be getting them offside and performance is slipping. What\u2019s\ngoing on? Maybe they\u2019re like Jake\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake was recently appointed to the Head of Engineering role for a rapidly\nscaling Australian startup leading a sizeable onshore and offshore tech team.\nJake\u2019s technical experience and qualifications are exactly what this business\nneeded and he had led globally disparate teams and delivered well in past\nroles.  As part of the selection process, Jake had completed a psych\nassessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over to\nVirginia…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assessed Jake and here is my \u2018take on Jake\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake\u2019s assessment shows that he can be expected to provide a strong yet low key leadership style, slowly and carefully building relationships through demonstrating his own technical and expert skills, leading by example, setting high standards and ensuring compliance.\u00a0\u00a0He will provide good clarity and goals to his team, and not…to read more of this article click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can find Virginia on<\/strong>\u00a0Scale & Swing<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Ucities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>. She\u2019s like our very own Wendy Rhoades from the hit tv show\u00a0<\/strong>Billions<\/strong><\/em>. Well, at least in terms of her role in helping Founders get the best out of their startup\u2019s most important asset \u2013 their people. She\u2019s actually nothing like the character!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So your new Head of Engineering ticks all the boxes but then they start, and you can\u2019t quite get a handle on them, you can\u2019t work them out, everything you do seems to be getting them offside and performance is slipping. What\u2019s going on? Maybe they\u2019re like Jake\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":217501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[47,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}