58: Vidya Santhanam on connecting team and business performance, common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

Vidya Santhanam, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyasanthanam/] is the co-founder and CEO of Fitbots OKRs.  Vidya leads Growth and Customer Success for Fitbots [https://www.fitbots.com/] and is passionate about building a SaaS business. Also a certified OKR coach, Vidya has coached over 400 teams on OKRs and certified 100 as part of the OKR certification program in collaboration with OKRs Training, US. Vidya brings this experience in building Fitbots, along with her co-founder &CTO Kashi. Prior to Fitbots, Vidya was leading Leadership Building and Performance in Mindtree Ltd, rolling out large scale organizational development practices for 20000+ employees. What I discussed with Vidya * Connecting team and business performance * OKR versus annual KPI * Why companies insist employees come back to the office * Common challenges to OKR implementations * And many more… Please enjoy! --- This episode is brought to you by Wanted. Wanted is a career platform from Korea, with over 10,000 companies and 2 million users using the platform for talent recruitment and career growth. Since 2015, Wanted's mission has been to bring fulfilment and happiness to all professionals around the world, offering the best job opportunities and best-in-class career content to support professional learning and growth. Adding on to the growth and innovation, Wanted introduces to you, RoundUp.  RoundUp is a video interview collaboration tool for every team. With a simple download of the Chrome browser extension, RoundUp invites you and your team to host hiring interviews on Google Meet, share interview evaluations, then round up all interviewer comments in a single dashboard; all to help your team efficiently reach the best hiring decision. It is currently free and available on roundup.ai [https://bit.ly/2Ua2Bgp] --- --- Who should I speak with next? Please let me know at adrian@adriantan.com.sg Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review [https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-adrian-tan-show/id1525515088]. It will help bring the episode to more people. 📲 Follow me online: * Youtube @AdrianTan18 [https://www.youtube.com/c/AdrianTan18] * Twitter @adriantan18 [https://twitter.com/adriantan18] * Facebook @adtan [https://www.facebook.com/adtan] * LinkedIn @adriantanck [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriantanck/] * adriantan.com.sg [https://adriantan.com.sg/]