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Roly is the founder of Appraisd, an employee performance management system that is unique in aiming to help managers get the best from their team members.
He has built Appraisd from his garden shed to a global business with £1mm ARR. He has so far avoided external investment, worried that it would get in the way of his family life but also wanted to prove that you could build and scale a SaaS business through customer revenue.
He is fascinated by what it means to be a manager – why middle management has become a dirty word, why management is seen as inferior to leadership, how managers also need to be coaches, mentors as well as holding their team members to account.
Roly says it’s hard to be a manager, and this is what drives him to build tools to help.
Oh, he also loves to regularly embarrass his two kids by playing guitar for their school’s Dads Band.
Roly is the founder of Appraisd, an employee performance management system that is unique in aiming to help managers get the best from their team members.
He has built Appraisd from his garden shed to a global business with £1mm ARR. He has so far avoided external investment, worried that it would get in the way of his family life but also wanted to prove that you could build and scale a SaaS business through customer revenue.
He is fascinated by what it means to be a manager – why middle management has become a dirty word, why management is seen as inferior to leadership, how managers also need to be coaches, mentors as well as holding their team members to account.
Roly says it’s hard to be a manager, and this is what drives him to build tools to help.
Oh, he also loves to regularly embarrass his two kids by playing guitar for their school’s Dads Band.
Many HR departments approach performance reviews as just another task in their agenda. On your podcast, Roly can share how to get most of them by putting employees first.
He’ll talk about personalizing the performance review approach for different departments, changing the frequency & format, and how to actually make employees excited about assessing their performance.
The recent trend in HR is to stop doing annual reviews and transition only into a continuous discussion. Whilst this approach isn’t entirely wrong, there are important things to keep in mind before making that jump.
On your podcast, Roly can share how to combine micro & macro feedback the right way, personalize discussion for each person, and make everything fit into your company structure.
Netflix has a policy of “radical candor”. That means that its employees are comfortable giving and receiving feedback.
On your podcast, Roly can share how to create & foster the feedback culture in any company. He will talk about communication, training, and overcoming the mindset struggles when it comes to giving or hearing feedback from your colleagues – no matter how pleasant or rough it is.
Nowadays, managers are asked to be coaches, mentors and almost therapists too – yet still need to challenge performance that doesn’t meet expectations. Skills like these are acquired over years of practice yet managers are often expected to be great managers from their first day in charge of a team. This is why we often see stress and imposter syndrome.
On your podcast, Roly can talk about how organisations can provide guardrails for managers to give them something to hang on to without sacrificing their authenticity and personal style.
If there is a specific topic you would like Roly to focus on during the interview that is not listed here, please do let us know.
We would be more than happy to run this by Roly to see if he is able to talk in detail and deliver value to your audience.
