Manuel Perez Gomez

From September 2021 to August 2022, I edited/proofread every piece of text on the HFW website, wrote blurbs for white papers and other downloadable content, and edited most page layouts. Here are the highlights: Human First Works WordPress Website Edited Content: Home (text): Helping Leaders Build Leaders (HFW tagline) Coaching, Facilitating, Training, and Leadership Development Continue reading Our Mission (text and page layout): To help leaders build leaders and good workplaces. When work is fulfilling, people do better. When people do better, families can thrive, and when families thrive, communities flourish. We focus on making work much better for everyone so the world flourishes. Continue reading What We Do (text): ● Founder Coaching ● Business Assessment ● Sales Acceleration ● Aligning Values and Strategy ● Team Chartering ● Organizational Design Continue reading RAISE (text and page layout): Our Philosophy At Human First Works, we support leaders who want to encourage and inspire their teams. As founders and leaders, we succeed best when we recognize the strengths and motivation of the people around us and provide them the tools, autonomy, and environment they need to become their best selves. By investing in these empowered individuals and teams, we enable them to find their ideal roles and make outstanding contributions to the company. When people find meaning in their work, they will do their best every day. Active learning, supported by leaders creating the safety to do so, turns each day into a chance for the organization to reap surprising rewards. In turn, this allows organizations to achieve their bigger goals and adapt quickly to an ever-changing and complex business landscape. To help leaders make this a reality, we've developed RAISE, a work philosophy that focuses on: ● Resilient Leadership ● Amplifying Individuals ● Investing in Teams ● Striving for Greatness ● Evolving Rapidly Continue reading Who We Work With (text): Our clients typically have one or more of the following: ● A focus on making a great workplace for their people ● Self-organizing / flat / low management ● Benefit Corporations or Conscious Companies ● Leaders who are focused on a long-term mission/goal, especially those working on the UN Sustainable Development Goals ● Companies passing through organizational phase change points Continue reading Author Pages (text and page layouts): ● Travis Marsh ● Jeff Schwaber ● Rebecca Young Blog Posts (text and page layouts): ● When Do Vision, Mission, and Values Boldly Fail? ● Management: Sailing on the Sea of Context — Part One ● Hiring a Player/Coach and Avoiding Disappointment ● Leadership Storytelling: The Fine Line Between Motivation and Manipulation ● Grace Under Fire: How to Handle Departures to Build Team Confidence ● Culture Interviews: Why We Should Focus On People's Work Personality ● Your Job Descriptions Suck—Job Scorecards Are a Way to Fix Them ● Job Scorecards: An Easy Onboarding and Development Plan for New Hires Resources: White Papers (text and page layout): ● Job Scorecards: Creating a Roadmap for Hiring Success ○ Scorecards: A Roadmap for Hiring Success - Edited by MPG Attracting, Hiring, and Keeping Great People (text and page layout): We’ve been hearing about the Great Resignation for a while now, so we want to focus on topics relating to why people quit, how to keep them, and how to hire great people when you do have to replace folks. You can see the resources we’ve been collecting here: Continue reading Written Content: Blog (intro and meta descriptions): In this space, we want to share our ideas, reflections, and research on topics that are on every leader’s mind. Join us in this journey of self-betterment as we shine a light on individual and team dynamics, organizational structures, and practices that can help companies thrive! In addition to our thoughts, we’d also like to give you some practical tips, guides, and frameworks that you can tailor to the specific needs of your organization. You can read our series Attracting, Hiring, and Keeping Great People or download our white papers on our Resources page! Continue reading Author Page (intro and meta descriptions): ● Manuel Perez Gomez Blog Posts (also published on the Lead Together blog): Diversity & Inclusion: A Recruiting Conversation with Sarah Noyes To get past the Diversity & Inclusion aspiration, leaders need to be intentional in building organizations that can leverage everyone’s uniqueness and talents. Vanessa Druskat's Team Emotional Intelligence Model: A Guide to Connection & Higher Performance What makes a group of talented people a trusting, high-performing team? What norms would allow them to self-manage? These are some of the questions Vanessa Druskat answers through her Team Emotional Intelligence Model. Resources: White Papers (intro and blurbs): Organizations have the most impact when every individual and team has clarity on the roles, responsibilities, and purpose they are serving. Understanding our part in the process and what decisions we can make individually and collectively allows us to get where we want to go faster and achieve outstanding results. At Human First Works, we want to offer different guides to help leaders define their organizational purpose, set clear and realistic team goals, and improve their interpersonal skills. These white papers will give you a practical way of establishing decision-making guidelines, creating performance metrics, onboarding new team members, facilitating meetings, and resolving workplace conflict through proven methods and examples. Continue reading White Papers: The Role Advice Process: Helping Individuals Find Their Optimum Role The Role Advice Process (RAP) is a tool that allows individuals to reconsider their role, the tasks it involves, and their fit to the organization’s current needs using feedback from their colleagues. ● RAP: Step by Step – The Explorer ● RAP: Step by Step – The Advisor ● RAP: Step by Step – The Manager ● RAP: Step by Step – The Manager (The Basics)