77: Gaurav Chaubey on performance management rethink, convincing senior management and the great resignation

Gaurav Chaubey [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-chaubey/] is the co-founder of Mesh [https://www.mesh.ai/], a modern performance management platform backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator. Gaurav has been a lifelong student of people management and HR technology. He is a former People & Culture consulting leader with experience of over 300 people performance, pays, engagement, and analytics client assignments, across 30+ countries. In addition, he helped organize over 500 people and culture transformation workshops with leadership and management teams in those roles. He has deep expertise in designing and implementing strategy-aligned organization structures, performance management frameworks, and pay for performance programs such as variable pay, short-term incentives, sales incentives, etc. Gaurav is an expert in long-term incentive design, including employee stock options, stock appreciation rights, and phantom stock plans. He has successfully designed and implemented over 100 such plans across both listed and unlisted organizations. What we discussed: * The biggest driver in the recent performance management rethink * Convincing senior management to transition from traditional to continuous performance management * The link between performance management and the great resignation * And many more... --- This episode is brought to you by ArcLab [https://arclab.io/]. ArcLab empowers your organisation to improve your workforce performance through just-in-time, bite-sized, mobile learning. Easily author & distribute training and digital SOP modules to your Deskless Workforce. Anytime, anywhere, in any language. Listeners to my pod get 10% off Learning Design services. Go to https://arclab.io/adriantan to claim this special offer today. --- 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 podcast to more people. Post-production of this episode is done on Descript [https://www.descript.com/?lmref=7VKmhg]. The recording is done virtually via Zencastr [https://zencastr.com/] using a Samson Q2U USB microphone.