A beauty company that uses ‘High Performance Teamwork’ where every employee takes responsibility for giving feedback to each other, fueling each other’s growth and always having each other’s backs. All employees commit to interactions that are specific, happen early, happen often, and occur across all levels of the organization.
 

Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables employers to invest in their employees, creating life-changing opportunities through learning programs, career development, and coaching with support, guidance, and resources at every step to ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own. ‍

Key elements of innovation: Regenerative institution.  Self generating franchise. Set up the model. 1) Empowerment is the foundation of education and job training – “We do not impose what they need to learn or how to work - they own it from the beginning and they learn to lead themselves and others”.

Key elements of innovation: Culture as an Algorithm - culture is the center of everything - hiring and socializing and places individuals into jobs for their clients; 2) Promotion through merit, without limit - throw out the normal model of time in role and climbing the ladder at the same pace others did. “We will promote anyone when they are ready”.
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Key elements of innovation: Physical space 1) Neighborhoods and studios over offices, purely collaborative spaces without work spaces, which are for home. Embraced a transition to remote and asynchronous work; 2) Meetings are only for the 3Ds: discussion, debate, decisions; 3) 4 ‘core working hours’ as a company-wide framework for collaboration work across global teams.

Key elements of innovation: 1) Asynchronous, remote-first work model that trusts employees accomplish work; 2) Culture of constant feedback “I like” and “I wish” feedback provided to manager and at least one peer every 2 weeks.
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